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Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
All,
Below is the final draft of the board report. Remember, mentors have until
tomorrow end of day to sign off on podlings. We have two podlings with no
sign offs - Mnemonic and Wave. Wave is especially concerning since its
just Upyavira now.
I've extended the months of the non-reporting podlings at this point. I
would ask that if any of those podlings do create a report between now and
end of day tomorrow, to first reach out on the general@ list to confirm.
I'd rather a podling miss a report than hurry a report that few people can
review.
- John
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Incubator PMC report for April 2016
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We have four
podlings planning to graduate this month and added five podlings to
the roster. As is typical in the months following the annual members
meeting, we have seen a jump in the number of IPMC members join.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Marvin Humphrey
- Suneel Marthi
- Uma Gangumalla
- Henri Yandell
People who left the IPMC:
- Jukka Zitting
* New Podlings
- Airflow
- Gearpump
- Mnemonic
- Omid
- Tephra
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
- TinkerPop
- AsterixDB
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
March:
2016-03-02 Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Apex Malhar 3.3.1-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Htrace 4.1.0-incubating
2016-03-04 Apache Mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating
2016-03-09 Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating
2016-03-10 Apache Ranger 0.5.2-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-language 0.15.1-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-osgi 0.2.1-incubating
2016-03-14 Apache MADlib v1.9alpha-rc2-incubating
2016-03-21 Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating
2016-03-25 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating
2016-03-27 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-incubating
* IP Clearance
- Apache Sling Dynamic Includes
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
We continue to struggle with podling report reminders.
A suite of manual reminders were sent, some were received
by the podlings and some were not.
* Miscellaneous
Based on group understanding, it appears that the Concerted podling
will retire soon.
* Credits
- Report Manager:
------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- Gearpump
- iota
- Joshua
- Metron
- Milagro
- Mnemonic
- Quarks
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Hawq
- Horn
- Impala
- Rya
- Toree
Community growth:
- Fineract
- Geode
- MADlib
- Ranger
- Wave
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
- TinkerPop
- AsterixDB
* Did not report, expected next month
- Concerted
- OpenAz
- Tephra
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Table of Contents
Apex
BatchEE
Concerted
DataFu
Fineract
FreeMarker
Gearpump
Geode
HAWQ
HORN
HTrace
Impala
iota
Johnzon
Joshua
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mnemonic
Mynewt
ODF Toolkit
Quarks
Ranger
Rya
Sirona
Toree
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Apex
Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
unifies stream processing and batch processing.
Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
None. Incubator graduation VOTE passed: https://s.apache.org/qhTf
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Resolution to establish Apache Apex as TLP submitted to board.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community is very engaged with the development of the project. We see
continious uptick in mailing list participaton (2180 messages on dev@ for
March, 122+ subscribers).
The community discussed graduation, addressed outstanding issues and
completed VOTE.
The community has been active building additional meetup groups:
http://s.apache.org/jKT
Many presentations and uptick in engagement.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Release 3.3.1-icubating of Malhar on 2016-03-02
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Metric | Core | Malhar |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 52 | 22 |
| Contributors | 10 | 11 |
| Jira New Issues | 40 | 31 |
| Resolved Issues | 43 | 20 |
| Pull Requests merged | 33 | 12 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 2 | 11 |
+---------------------------------------------------+
We are anticipating patch release 3.2.1 in April.
Date of last release:
2016-03-02 Apex (Malhar) 3.3.1-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2 PPMC members and 1 committer were added since December.
PPMC and committer list was updated on the status page.
Signed-off-by:
[X](apex) Chris Nauroth
[ ](apex) Alan Gates
[X](apex) Hitesh Shah
[X](apex) Justin Mclean
[ ](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
[X](apex) Ted Dunning
--------------------
BatchEE
Apache BatchEE aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
The PPMC feels that the project is ready to graduate soon.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
Bugfixing continues in BatchEE and we are actively working with the
JBatch community towards a new JBatch specification
How has the project developed since the last report?
BatchEE contributes to the JBatch specification to make the
project moving forward in the right direction.
Date of last release:
2015-12-08
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-12-11
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
It seems that the community posted one report, but then a mentor posted
a largely reworded report. No evidence of a discussion seems to have
been done on public mailing lists for either report.
--------------------
Concerted
Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data
engines.
Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14.
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
No report, despite prodding from Chris, and no activity on lists.
I think this one's dead.
Jake Farrell (jfarrell):
No activity so far in 2016.
Chris Nauroth (cnauroth):
There has been no activity on the project for several months, and we
don't see a viable way to salvage it. We are discussing closing it down.
--------------------
DataFu
DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
higher
level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions
for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs
for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow user and contributor base
2. Increased committer activity
3. Continued releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* A new contributor opened several JIRAs regarding improvements and
contributed patches. Two have been committed so far.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Improved instructions on loading projects in Eclipse based on discussion
in JIRA.
* Added checks in build system to catch issues using wrong JDK version.
* Some UDFs were improved to be more efficient.
* A new UDF is pending review.
Date of last release:
2015-11-14
When were the last committers or PMC members elected
November 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](datafu) Ted Dunning
--------------------
Fineract
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalising the initial release
2. Improve the communication around the differences between the previous
MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the MifosX
community, website etc.
3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
collaboration within the community.
4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
consensus.
5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of traffic
on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
(see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
interaction.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a great
meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community members
and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
interest in Fineract.
We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout Africa -
we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Individual members of the leading partner organizations building solutions
using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and enhancements
they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
setting a good example that other individuals from our partner community
should follow.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
FreeMarker
FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
programmers.
FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finding more active contributors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
There were no changes
How has the project developed since the last report?
FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users can
test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and fixes, we
have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
(switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
Java conventions).
The legal/policy issue with the web site domain (INFRA-10787) was settled,
and we are using our historical domain again (freemarker.org) until
graduation.
Date of last release:
2016-03-28
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
[X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
--------------------
Gearpump
Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the micro-service
Actor model.
Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make initial Apache branded release
2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
following Apache policies
3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
contributor and end-user friendly.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
import.
How has the community developed since the last report?
All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
Apache JIRA accounts.
Discussion among developers has started on
dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
How has the project developed since the last report?
The JIRA for the podling is active at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
[ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
[ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
[ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
[ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
--------------------
Geode
Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access
to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
architectures.
Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rename packages to org.apache
2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside
of Pivotal.
3. Establish a release cadence.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We have been able to address the “Three most important issues to move
towards graduation” from the previous report
1. We had our first public release
2. We Added 4 new committers, one of which is outside Pivotal
3. We are about to have a second release, establishing a regular release
cadence
- We had a GeodeSummit http://geodesummit.com/
- 22 sessions (including Keynote)
- Sessions included current use cases as well as integrations with other
Apache projects
- Over 100 attendees
- Received project proposal after the summit.
- The Geode Clubhouse hosted a meeting covering a walk through the
different approaches for caching data in a Spring based application with
Apache Geode by Luke Shannon
- The breakdown of JIRA tickets is the following:
Q3 / 2015 - 65 created, 19 resolved.
Q4 / 2015 - 342 created, 227 resolved.
Q1 / 2016 - 438 created, 362 resolved.
Q2 / 2016 - 8 created, 12 resolved (As of Apr 4th)
- There was a total of 123 pull requests on GitHub with 6 still open.
- The breakdown of the mailing lists messages for January, Feb, March of
2016:
org.apache.geode.issues 4300
org.apache.geode.commits 3731
org.apache.geode.dev 2154
org.apache.geode.user 294
- There are now 153 subscribers on the dev and 145 on the user mailing
lists.
- Community events:
- January 2016:
- FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels:
- Taxi trip analysis (DEBS grand-challenge) with Apache Geode
(incubating)
- Big Data meets Fast Data: an scalable hybrid real-time transactional
and analytics solution
- February 2016:
- Seattle Java User’s Group (Talk about Introduction to Apache Geode)
- March 2016:
- Geode Summit in Palo Alto, California
- Geode meetup in Palo Alto
(http://www.meetup.com/Pivotal-Open-Source-Hub/events/228983898/)
- Apache Apex (incubating) meetup featuring Geode integration
(http://www.meetup.com/Apex-Bay-Area-Chapter/events/228593080/)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Had first release, close to the second release (with 134 out of 138
issues resolved)
- We elected a release manager for the first release and have rotated that
responsibility for the second release
- Had a discussion about how to number the releases
- Voted on the Release candidates, rejected the first but the second
release candidate was voted as the final release
- The community discussed the criteria for becoming a committer and
learned the correct way of nominating new committers.
- JIRA components were refined after a discussion on the mailing list.
- Consensus was achieved for the scope for the releases on the mailing
list.
- Decision was made not to rename the command line tool on the mailing
list.
- Each commit and pull request is run through CI using Travis CI
- Removed @author tags
- First release published to maven central
- Javadocs hosted on the project website.
Date of last release:
2016-02-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Jinmei Liao (2016-01-26)
- Sai Boorlagadda (2016-02-19)
- Nitin Lamba (2016-03-08)
- Dave Barnes (2016-03-30)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](geode) Chip Childers
[ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](geode) Jan Iversen
[ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
[ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
[X](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
HAWQ
Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS
natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear
scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully
interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete,
standards compliant SQL interface.
HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Produce our first Apache Release
2. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on making
sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and
discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the
public dev mailing list
3. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least
installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. One HAWQ Nest community meeting (topic: GPORCA: Query Optimization as a
Service) Video: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest0223yt
2. The community shows pretty high activities. In Dev, there have been 816
messages on dev@/user@ in March 2016.
3. Got around 29 pull requests from contributors that are not in the
initial committer team.
4. GSoC 2016: 6 topics created for it.
5. FOSDEM 2016 event:
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/hpc_bigdata_hadoopsql/
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/postgresql_unified_framework_for_big_data_foreign_data_wrappers/
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Main features/improvements added include:
a) Hawq-473 Add fault reason and history into hawq catalog
b) HAWQ-404 Add sort during INSERT of append only row oriented
partition tables
c) HAWQ-558 Improve performance of truncate on small tables
d) HAWQ-532 HAWQ-580 HAWQ-587 Enhance the virtual segment number
selection method
e) HAWQ-551 Enhance explain analyze with more information on data
locality and resource manager
f) HAWQ-546 Enhance \d for HCatalog tables
g) HAWQ-144 Support HAWQ build on MAC
h) HAWQ-597 Add Travis CI(OSX) for MAC
i) Critical bug fixes.
2. 135 new JIRAs filed, 116 resolved (In Mar 2016)
3. 134 code commits (In Mar 2016)
Date of last release:
We have not had a release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers/members from initial.
Signed-off-by:
[](hawq) Alan Gates
[](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[](hawq) Thejas Nair
[X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
JM (shepherd): A couple on minor issues around communication on list and
releases but mentors are on top on it.
--------------------
HORN
HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for large-
scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase development velocity
2. Make a 0.1 release
3. Refocus the direction we want to take this project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
Number of subscribers has increased slightly, development has however been
slow.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have decided that we need to refocus on what we want HORN to look like
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
October
Signed-off-by:
[ ](horn) Luciano Resende
[ ](horn) Robin Anil
[x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
--------------------
HTrace
HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.
HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
2. Continue to explore projects integratiing HTrace
3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* YCSB community are working on integrating HTrace.
* Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Apache HTrace are being planned.
There are proposals such as
* distributed tracing for s3 and other alternative Hadoop FS
* Kudu span receiver
* integrating HTrace into Hadoop YARN
* HTrace'ing in Apache Nutch
How has the project developed since the last report?
* +70 issues were fixed and released as part of 4.1.0-incubating.
* Improved htraced a lot in Web-UI, robustness, metrics and logging
* Added Docker support for development
* Added Documentation for developers
Date of last release:
* htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15
Signed-off-by:
[X](htrace) Jake Farrell
[ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
[X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
[X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](htrace) Michael Stack
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
This podling's come pretty far. Maybe time to graduate soon?
--------------------
Impala
Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Transition of development workflows to ASF (see
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221)
2. Initial release as incubating project.
3. Community growth
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
incubation began. We continue to see an uptick in external contributions,
with two patches from new contributors this month. One contributor
pleasingly reported it was "great to work closely with Impala community".
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have put together a list of tasks required to move development of
Impala from Cloudera's infrastructure to the ASF. Since Impala was already
a well-established project before the Incubator proposal, there is perhaps
more decoupling required than for more nascent projects. The list is at
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221, and is being actively
worked on. Note that this doesn't cover the standard podling tasks (like
name search, etc).
Date of last release:
None since entering incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since entering incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](impala) Tom White
[ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
[ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
[ ](impala) Brock Noland
--------------------
iota
Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted to
upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than upload
an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
developing a new backend architecture and code based that implements a
significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for our
APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository. This
will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose business
runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the backend
using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
scalable.
2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache iota
website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
source code as quickly as we can.
3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are planning
to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott Noteboom
(Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache Con in
May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release as
an Apache incubator project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* This is the first submitted report
How has the project developed since the last report?
* This is the first submitted report
Date of last release:
* None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
[ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
[X](iota) Justin Mclean
[X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
non-ASF way.
Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be better to start
off
writing new code in the ASF repos.
jmclean:
I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
I've
contacted them a few times with a please explain and have assurances
that
this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling on monthly reports
for a
few more months.
drew:
2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity as
the
team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping podling on
monthly
reports.
--------------------
Johnzon
Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Currently graduation, so nothing but issues necessary for graduation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Currently graduating to a TPL
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 20 msgs (on
average) messages per month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project did its 10th incubator release. During the last three month 9
jira issues were reported and 6 of them fixed. Project has also started
to implement the upcoming JSR-374 and JSR-367 specification. The project
has also voted for a logo.
Date of last release:
2016-FEB-17 (0.9.3-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, last PMC member was elected
2015-04-09 (Hendrik Saly)
Signed-off-by:
[X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
[ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
Podling is planning to graduate, but sign off received from only one
mentor.
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Joshua
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure (nearly
complete)
2. Building up community and attracting developers
3. Putting out regular Joshua releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and
things are proceeding nicely.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been
extended to them.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due to
caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library.
Date of last release:
2015-11-05 (prior to incubation)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Felix Hieber (2016-04-01)
- Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
[ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
[ ](joshua) Tom Barber
[ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
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MADlib
Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
contributors.
3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required
by the "Apache Way”.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Held three community calls in Q1 2016. Each call featured a different
member of the Apache MADlib community presenting on a topic of interest
to them:
* Jan 15th - Bayesian Analysis of Binomial Response Models on MPP
Databases (Gautam Muralidhar)
* Feb 16th - An Overview of GWR Analysis of Spatial Data (Chenliang
Wang)
* Mar 16th - MADlib on PostgreSQL and PGXN (AJ Welch)
2. One new committer has been added to the project (Xiaocheng Tang)
3. Presentation of Apache MADlib at FOSDEM’16 in Brussels (Frank
McQuillan)
4. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
appropriate JIRAs (e.g., 111 emails on dev@ mailing list in Feb)
5. Several Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidates have expressed interest
in working on MADlib projects via dev@ mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 1st ASF release MADlib v1.9alpha on 3/11/16 which was intended to clear
all potential IP issues in the code base and make it legally ready to
be adopted by the community.
2. 2nd ASF release MADlib v1.9 is currently in IPMC voting as of this
writing on 4/6/16. The goal of this 2nd release is general
availability of MADlib v1.9 for community use.
3. Some features in the latest release: path functions, support vector
machines, advanced matrix operations, covariance matrix, proportion of
variance for PCA, support for Apache HAWQ (incubating) 2.0.
4. 15 JIRAs created and 27 resolved in last 30 days.
Date of last release:
Apache MADlib (incubating) v1.9alpha on 3/11/16.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Xiaocheng Tang on 1/14/16.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[X](madlib) Ted Dunning
[X](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
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Metron
Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order to
offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
within a single platform.
Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards
Graduation.
- Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
- Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
- Make an Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to
be aware of
- We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
* How has the community developed since the last report
- We added one additional committer, David Lyle
- We accepted 2 separate contributions from non-committers interested
in Metron
- We saw an uptick in interest from the community on the dev boards which
corresponds to people trying the product prior to an official release,
which is a good sign.
* How has the project developed since the last report
- We closed 20 more Jiras and are in the latest stages of releasing an
Apache release.
- We added deployment automation for EC2 so trying out Metron in a
multi-node environment is even easier
- We integrated the CI environment that infra set up for us at our request
so that unit tests and apache rat license checks are run on every pull
request submitted
- We added support for indexing enriched sensor capture data into Apache
Solr indexing as well as Elasticsearch
Date of last release:
--
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
David Lyle on 22 March 2016
Signed-off-by:
[X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
[X](metron) Owen O'Malley
[ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
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Milagro
Distributed Cryptography;
M-Pin and other pairing protocols for Identity and Trust
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Import the software: The source code is already prepared and placed in
repositories on GitHub – soon to be imported to Apache repositories.
This includes a full Milagro MFA implementation.
2. Awareness among developers: Milagro announcement – during ApacheCon
North America – May 2016
3. General Awareness
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
n/a
How has the community developed since the last report?
No substantial developments to report. The project is targeting community
development following Apachecon presentations.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project members are preparing to present the project at ApacheCon with a
view to connecting with the wider Apache community and finding synergies
with other projects.
Date of last release:
n/a
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February, as reported.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
[ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
[x](milagro) Nick Kew
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Mnemonic
Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place structured
data processing and computing.
Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
Mnemonic code was moved into ASF on 3/24
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+--------------------------------------------+
| Metric | counts |
+--------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 82 |
| Contributors | 10 |
| Jira New Issues | 13 |
| Resolved Issues | 4 |
| Pull Requests merged | 8 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 8 |
+--------------------------------------------+
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Apache releases: we are preparing 0.1.0 release
2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions,
adding new contributors
3. Develop new features
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Everything is on track, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The project is in early stage in setting up the infra. In addition to
contributors listed in Mnemonic proposal, we had one new contributor
joined us. We are actively discuss with Arrow community in dev list for
the idea on integration. Apache Arrow community is very interested in
Mnemonic integration for extending Arrow into persistent memory and
storage.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We ported source code in Apache on 3/24 after SGA was filed on 3/23. We
are doing several refactorings and defining coding guidelines to fit
Apache project standard.
We are working on enabling Apache Arrow to use Mnemonic as underlying
pooling mechanism.
We are designing the native computing infrastructure, built native
computing interface code.
Bug tracking JIRA setup was done, 13 issues were filed. 4 issues were
solved.
Mailing list discussions are happening actively related to infrastructure,
code standard, features for the project.
Date of last release:
No release yet, working on 0.1.0 release
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No election, since the project is just starting. As part of incubation
process, initial committers and contributors were proposed and added.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
[ ](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
[ ](mnemonic) James Taylor
[ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Mynewt
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make further releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS image
with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity. Do
subsequent releases to indicate thorough understanding, repeatability,
and maturity of process.
2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project
contributors to achieve self-governance
3. Expand community - attract new project contributors and users, grow
committer base
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Healthy, active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers
2. Continual outside interest by 3rd parties. Outreach via conferences,
exhibits, one on one meetings, beta testers, GSoC participation.
3. Vigorous discussions and implementation decisions via proposals and
voting on @dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Releases: Two releases so far - first on 22nd Feb, next on 18th March
- Identified and fixed license issues, regular process established to
check for license issues esp. with third party software
- Tagging process and release candidate naming process tested and used
- Voting process and timelines established and used
2. Documentation support: Several committers added documentation either
through direct git pushes or pull requests on github mirror.
3. Effort towards self governance:
- Two releases completed successfully.
- Two committer candidates going through voting for committer status
after meeting threshold of patch submissions.
Date of last release:
2016-03-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At the start
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
[X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
[X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
[ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
[ ](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
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ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Attract more developers
2. Have frequent releases
3. Decide on possible ways to graduate
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Not many developers are active currently.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several patches have been added to JIRA by community members. Issues have
been reported.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several patches have been applied, a new release is planned.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Hopefully the new release will generate a little more interest. I'd
suggest we wait a few more months to see the effect of that, before
deciding on what to do with the podling (staying in the incubator for ever
isn't an option!)
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Quarks
Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that can
be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local,
real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all kinds
(for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely
analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
around Quarks project
2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks
3. Complete migration of website to host all content at Apache (javadoc is
still on Github).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing jumps to mind.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the mailing
list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of independent
contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of independent
contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project and
we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The project has successfully migrated from Github-based development to
using the Apache git repo, Jira, and the mailing lists.
Date of last release:
Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No changes from the initial committers.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner
[ ](quarks) Luciano Resende
[X](quarks) Katherine Marsden
[X](quarks) Justin Mclean
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Ranger
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
contributors.
3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Added new contributors:
(Bolke de Bruin,Deepak Sharma,Colm O hEigeartaigh,Tushar
Dudhatra,mugdha.varadkar,pradeep.agrawal,mehul,ankita.sinha)
Total Contributor Count: 23
2. Mailing list activity since last report (Dec-01-2015 to Mar-31-2016):
@dev 1534
@user 153
@commit 345
3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Dec-01-2015
before Mar-31-2016):
Created: 153
Resolved: 140
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Released two minor releases :
0.5.1 release on 01/26/2016
0.5.2 release on 02/29/2016
2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
a. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache Ranger
KMS.
b. Working to provide both Column-level-masking and Row-level-filtering
support for data security
c. Working to add Tag-Based authorization policies
Date of last release:
Feb-29-2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ranger) Alan Gates
[ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
[ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
[ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
[X](ranger) Owen O'Malley
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Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
part of the Apache Foundation
2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors can
become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the
community.
3. Add new committers to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a working
solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask questions,
receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes are
sent to the dev@ list.
* We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
submit PRs and become committers.
* There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
* Created a website for the project.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices,
extensions to query planning to support more complex precomputed join
indices, free text search support for MongoDB, additional Geo indexing
for MongoDB, extensions of examples for both Accumulo and MongoDB backed
Rya
Date of last release:
Not applicable
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not applicable
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
[x](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[x](rya) Sean Busbey
[x](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
sb: project activity was a little slow, due to other time commitments for
the dev community, but folks had a great discussion around next steps
when it came time for a draft report.
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Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the community
2. do more releases
3. make the community more active
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change but some more user feedbacks.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
Date of last release:
2015-11-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
[X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
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Toree
Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
Python, R or SQL.
Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
with AL2.
2. Make a release: nearing completion
3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three independent
contributors)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
Toree.
3. First external contribution made by user @dongjoon-hyun
4. Apache Toree was featured at SF Data Science meetup
https://github.com/asimjalis/apache-toree-quickstart
Date of last release:
None since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new additions since incubation
Signed-off-by:
[ ](toree) Luciano Resende
[ ](toree) Reynold Xin
[X](toree) Hitesh Shah
[ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
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Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Growing community
2. Improving code base.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We made our first release.
- Elected new committer.
- Previously private fork (wiab.pro) opened the source code that includes
many improvements that can be integrated back into main project.
- Also, there's an active development in additional open source fork
(swellrt) that potentially allows us to integrate back important
features.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Replaced the old ANT build system with a new Gradle one.
- Fixed a few bugs
- Made a few code improvements
Date of last release:
March 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February 2016
Signed-off-by:
[ ](wave) Upayavira
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by Patrick Hunt <ph...@apache.org>.
Hey there, just back from vacation and getting caught up. Thanks for
the reminder!
Patrick
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Wang, Yanping <ya...@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi, John
>
> I think our mentors are busy during the day.
> Patrick was on vacation last week. I'd suggest give them a few more hours to signoff the report.
>
> Thanks,
> Yanping
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John D. Ament [mailto:johndament@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:32 PM
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
>
> I'm a bit curious about how we should handle Mnemonic. I've received no
> response thus far from the podling. I'd rather not kick them out of the
> monthly report.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:28 PM Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:56 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Below is the final draft of the board report.
>>
>> The report looks good to me! Comments inline.
>>
>> > - Airflow
>> > - Gearpump
>> > - Mnemonic
>> > - Omid
>> > - Tephra
>> >
>> > * Graduations
>> >
>> > The board has motions for the following:
>> >
>> > - Apex
>> > - Johnzon
>> > - TinkerPop
>> > - AsterixDB
>>
>> What turnover! I see that with the addition of Quickstep that's *six* new
>> podlings in one month, which has to be a record.
>>
>> Congrats to all the entrants and graduates!
>>
>> > * Credits
>> >
>> > - Report Manager:
>>
>> I added the credit for this month's erstwhile Report Manager. :)
>>
>> > * Did not report, expected next month
>> >
>> > - Concerted
>> > - OpenAz
>> > - Tephra
>>
>> The OpenAZ report was due in January and is thus 4 months late, which I
>> have
>> now noted on the wiki. OpenAZ's status has been raised on
>> private@incubator
>> and we just have to keep raising it each month until a report gets filed.
>>
>> > --------------------
>> > Fineract
>> >
>> > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
>> >
>> > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
>> >
>> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>> >
>> > 1. Finalising the initial release
>> > 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
>> previous
>> > MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
>> MifosX
>> > community, website etc.
>> > 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
>> > proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
>> > collaboration within the community.
>> > 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
>> > tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
>> > consensus.
>> > 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
>> >
>> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
>> > aware of?
>> >
>> > On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
>> traffic
>> > on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
>> > and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
>> > recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
>> > (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
>> > interaction.
>> >
>> > How has the community developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
>> great
>> > meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
>> members
>> > and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
>> > interest in Fineract.
>> >
>> > We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
>> Africa -
>> > we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
>> > collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
>> >
>> > How has the project developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
>> solutions
>> > using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
>> > issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
>> enhancements
>> > they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
>> > setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
>> community
>> > should follow.
>> >
>> > Date of last release:
>> >
>> > N/A
>> >
>> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>> >
>> > N/A
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by:
>> >
>> > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
>> > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
>> > [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
>>
>> This report provides excellent insight into the challenges and
>> opportunities
>> before the Fineract community. Thank you for a good read, and good luck!
>>
>> > --------------------
>> > FreeMarker
>>
>> > How has the project developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users
>> can
>> > test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and
>> fixes, we
>> > have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
>> > practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
>> > (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
>> > Java conventions).
>>
>> Those sound like good ideas! There really are a lot of ways to make a
>> project
>> easier to contribute to, but they can be hard to see when you're in the
>> thick
>> of it.
>>
>> > --------------------
>> > Gearpump
>> >
>> > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
>> micro-service
>> > Actor model.
>> >
>> > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
>> >
>> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>> >
>> > 1. Make initial Apache branded release
>> > 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
>> > following Apache policies
>> > 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
>> > contributor and end-user friendly.
>> >
>> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
>> > aware of?
>> >
>> > The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
>> > Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
>> > awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
>> > import.
>> >
>> > How has the community developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
>> > Apache JIRA accounts.
>> >
>> > Discussion among developers has started on
>> > dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
>> >
>> > How has the project developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > The JIRA for the podling is active at
>> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
>> >
>> > Date of last release:
>> >
>> > No release yet.
>> >
>> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>> >
>> > No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by:
>> >
>> > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
>> > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
>> > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
>> > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
>> > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
>>
>> This is a solid first report from Gearpump. It describes the progress of
>> getting set up in the Incubator and establishes the routine of reporting.
>> There may not be too much to say about community interaction at first, but
>> that's fine.
>>
>> > --------------------
>> > iota
>> >
>> > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
>> >
>> > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
>> >
>> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>> >
>> > 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
>> > happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted
>> to
>> > upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
>> upload
>> > an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
>> > developing a new backend architecture and code based that
>> implements a
>> > significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
>> > Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for
>> our
>> > APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
>> > haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository.
>> This
>> > will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
>> business
>> > runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
>> backend
>> > using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
>> > scalable.
>> > 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache
>> iota
>> > website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
>> > source code as quickly as we can.
>> > 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
>> planning
>> > to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
>> Noteboom
>> > (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache
>> Con in
>> > May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
>> > community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release
>> as
>> > an Apache incubator project
>> >
>> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
>> > aware of?
>> >
>> > * None at this time.
>> >
>> > How has the community developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > * This is the first submitted report
>> >
>> > How has the project developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > * This is the first submitted report
>> >
>> > Date of last release:
>> >
>> > * None
>> >
>> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>> >
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by:
>> >
>> > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
>> > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
>> > [X](iota) Justin Mclean
>> > [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
>> >
>> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>> >
>> > johndament:
>> > Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
>> > non-ASF way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be
>> > better to start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
>> >
>> > jmclean:
>> > I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
>> > I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have
>> > assurances that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling
>> on
>> > monthly reports for a few more months.
>> >
>> > drew:
>> > 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity
>> as
>> > the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping
>> podling
>> > on monthly reports.
>>
>> I'd just like to say that it can be quite challenging to do fundamental
>> architectural design work under ASF-style collaboration and governance.
>> What
>> we are asking of iota is not an easy task and I don't envy them.
>>
>> > --------------------
>> > Quarks
>>
>> > How has the community developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
>> mailing
>> > list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
>> independent
>> > contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
>> independent
>> > contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project
>> and
>> > we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
>>
>> Nice -- it's good that Quarks understands the direction to head in.
>>
>> > --------------------
>> > Rya
>>
>> > How has the community developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
>> > some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
>> working
>> > solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
>> questions,
>> > receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes
>> are
>> > sent to the dev@ list.
>> > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
>> > repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
>> > submit PRs and become committers.
>> > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a
>> few
>> > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
>>
>> Another very nice community development section. Thanks, Rya!
>>
>> > --------------------
>> > Sirona
>> >
>> > Monitoring Solution.
>> >
>> > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
>> >
>> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>> >
>> > 1. increase the community
>> > 2. do more releases
>> > 3. make the community more active
>> >
>> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
>> > aware of?
>> >
>> > No
>> >
>> > How has the community developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > No change but some more user feedbacks.
>> >
>> > How has the project developed since the last report?
>> >
>> > Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
>> >
>> > Date of last release:
>> >
>> > 2015-11-18
>> >
>> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by:
>> >
>> > [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
>> > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
>> > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
>> > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
>> > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
>> > [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
>>
>> The reports from Sirona could stand to be a little fuller.
>>
>> Also, the question about last committers / PMC members really ought to be
>> filled in. The Board is very persistent about asking TLPs for that
>> information.
>>
>> Marvin Humphrey
>>
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Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by Andrew Purtell <ap...@apache.org>.
The deadline for signing off is today, right? Sorry to take it to the last
minute....
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 5:29 PM, Henry Saputra <he...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> No need to be curious too much, mea culpa from me for missing signing off
> the report :)
>
> I had the impression I did sign off the report for Mnemonic, sincerely
> apologize.
>
> - Henry
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Wang, Yanping <ya...@intel.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, John
> >
> > I think our mentors are busy during the day.
> > Patrick was on vacation last week. I'd suggest give them a few more hours
> > to signoff the report.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yanping
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John D. Ament [mailto:johndament@apache.org]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:32 PM
> > To: general@incubator.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
> >
> > I'm a bit curious about how we should handle Mnemonic. I've received no
> > response thus far from the podling. I'd rather not kick them out of the
> > monthly report.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:28 PM Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:56 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Below is the final draft of the board report.
> > >
> > > The report looks good to me! Comments inline.
> > >
> > > > - Airflow
> > > > - Gearpump
> > > > - Mnemonic
> > > > - Omid
> > > > - Tephra
> > > >
> > > > * Graduations
> > > >
> > > > The board has motions for the following:
> > > >
> > > > - Apex
> > > > - Johnzon
> > > > - TinkerPop
> > > > - AsterixDB
> > >
> > > What turnover! I see that with the addition of Quickstep that's *six*
> > new
> > > podlings in one month, which has to be a record.
> > >
> > > Congrats to all the entrants and graduates!
> > >
> > > > * Credits
> > > >
> > > > - Report Manager:
> > >
> > > I added the credit for this month's erstwhile Report Manager. :)
> > >
> > > > * Did not report, expected next month
> > > >
> > > > - Concerted
> > > > - OpenAz
> > > > - Tephra
> > >
> > > The OpenAZ report was due in January and is thus 4 months late, which I
> > > have
> > > now noted on the wiki. OpenAZ's status has been raised on
> > > private@incubator
> > > and we just have to keep raising it each month until a report gets
> filed.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Fineract
> > > >
> > > > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
> > > >
> > > > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Finalising the initial release
> > > > 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
> > > previous
> > > > MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
> > > MifosX
> > > > community, website etc.
> > > > 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use
> the
> > > > proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the
> > ongoing
> > > > collaboration within the community.
> > > > 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> > > > tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community
> driven
> > > > consensus.
> > > > 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
> > > traffic
> > > > on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX
> > community
> > > > and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time
> the
> > > > recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in
> > it
> > > > (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> > > > interaction.
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
> > > great
> > > > meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
> > > members
> > > > and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> > > > interest in Fineract.
> > > >
> > > > We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
> > > Africa -
> > > > we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the
> correct
> > > > collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
> > > solutions
> > > > using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the
> > Fineract
> > > > issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
> > > enhancements
> > > > they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals
> are
> > > > setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
> > > community
> > > > should follow.
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > N/A
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > > N/A
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> > > > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> > > > [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> > >
> > > This report provides excellent insight into the challenges and
> > > opportunities
> > > before the Fineract community. Thank you for a good read, and good
> luck!
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > FreeMarker
> > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that
> > users
> > > can
> > > > test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and
> > > fixes, we
> > > > have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache
> best
> > > > practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> > > > (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the
> > modern
> > > > Java conventions).
> > >
> > > Those sound like good ideas! There really are a lot of ways to make a
> > > project
> > > easier to contribute to, but they can be hard to see when you're in the
> > > thick
> > > of it.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Gearpump
> > > >
> > > > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> > > micro-service
> > > > Actor model.
> > > >
> > > > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> > > > 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> > > > following Apache policies
> > > > 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make
> > Gearpump
> > > > contributor and end-user friendly.
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including
> a
> > > > Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> > > > awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform
> the
> > > > import.
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts
> > and
> > > > Apache JIRA accounts.
> > > >
> > > > Discussion among developers has started on
> > > > dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > The JIRA for the podling is active at
> > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing
> activity.
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > No release yet.
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > > No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
> > >
> > > This is a solid first report from Gearpump. It describes the progress
> of
> > > getting set up in the Incubator and establishes the routine of
> reporting.
> > > There may not be too much to say about community interaction at first,
> > but
> > > that's fine.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > iota
> > > >
> > > > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
> > > >
> > > > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking
> what
> > is
> > > > happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we
> > wanted
> > > to
> > > > upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
> > > upload
> > > > an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have
> > been
> > > > developing a new backend architecture and code based that
> > > implements a
> > > > significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> > > > Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django
> for
> > > our
> > > > APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently,
> > you
> > > > haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and
> repository.
> > > This
> > > > will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
> > > business
> > > > runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
> > > backend
> > > > using additional Apache components that makes the solution far
> > more
> > > > scalable.
> > > > 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the
> Apache
> > > iota
> > > > website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the
> initial
> > > > source code as quickly as we can.
> > > > 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
> > > planning
> > > > to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
> > > Noteboom
> > > > (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache
> > > Con in
> > > > May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> > > > community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first
> > release
> > > as
> > > > an Apache incubator project
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > * None at this time.
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > * This is the first submitted report
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > * This is the first submitted report
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > * None
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> > > > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> > > > [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> > > > [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
> > > >
> > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> > > >
> > > > johndament:
> > > > Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> > > > non-ASF way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation,
> may
> > be
> > > > better to start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
> > > >
> > > > jmclean:
> > > > I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the
> > ASF.
> > > > I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have
> > > > assurances that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the
> podling
> > > on
> > > > monthly reports for a few more months.
> > > >
> > > > drew:
> > > > 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little
> > activity
> > > as
> > > > the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping
> > > podling
> > > > on monthly reports.
> > >
> > > I'd just like to say that it can be quite challenging to do fundamental
> > > architectural design work under ASF-style collaboration and governance.
> > > What
> > > we are asking of iota is not an easy task and I don't envy them.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Quarks
> > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
> > > mailing
> > > > list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
> > > independent
> > > > contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
> > > independent
> > > > contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache
> project
> > > and
> > > > we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
> > >
> > > Nice -- it's good that Quarks understands the direction to head in.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Rya
> > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We
> > had
> > > > some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
> > > working
> > > > solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
> > > questions,
> > > > receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The
> > minutes
> > > are
> > > > sent to the dev@ list.
> > > > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into
> the
> > > > repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue
> to
> > > > submit PRs and become committers.
> > > > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code,
> and a
> > > few
> > > > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
> > >
> > > Another very nice community development section. Thanks, Rya!
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Sirona
> > > >
> > > > Monitoring Solution.
> > > >
> > > > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. increase the community
> > > > 2. do more releases
> > > > 3. make the community more active
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > No
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > No change but some more user feedbacks.
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation
> > side.
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > 2015-11-18
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> > > > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> > > > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > > > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> > > > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> > > > [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
> > >
> > > The reports from Sirona could stand to be a little fuller.
> > >
> > > Also, the question about last committers / PMC members really ought to
> be
> > > filled in. The Board is very persistent about asking TLPs for that
> > > information.
> > >
> > > Marvin Humphrey
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> >
>
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Best regards,
- Andy
Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by hitting back. - Piet Hein
(via Tom White)
Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by James Taylor <ja...@apache.org>.
Me too - my bad. So sorry. I'm embarrassed to admit I can't find an email
for it.
On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, Henry Saputra <he...@gmail.com> wrote:
> No need to be curious too much, mea culpa from me for missing signing off
> the report :)
>
> I had the impression I did sign off the report for Mnemonic, sincerely
> apologize.
>
> - Henry
>
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Wang, Yanping <yanping.wang@intel.com
> <javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, John
> >
> > I think our mentors are busy during the day.
> > Patrick was on vacation last week. I'd suggest give them a few more hours
> > to signoff the report.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Yanping
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: John D. Ament [mailto:johndament@apache.org <javascript:;>]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:32 PM
> > To: general@incubator.apache.org <javascript:;>
> > Subject: Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
> >
> > I'm a bit curious about how we should handle Mnemonic. I've received no
> > response thus far from the podling. I'd rather not kick them out of the
> > monthly report.
> >
> > John
> >
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:28 PM Marvin Humphrey <marvin@rectangular.com
> <javascript:;>>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:56 AM, John D. Ament <johndament@apache.org
> <javascript:;>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Below is the final draft of the board report.
> > >
> > > The report looks good to me! Comments inline.
> > >
> > > > - Airflow
> > > > - Gearpump
> > > > - Mnemonic
> > > > - Omid
> > > > - Tephra
> > > >
> > > > * Graduations
> > > >
> > > > The board has motions for the following:
> > > >
> > > > - Apex
> > > > - Johnzon
> > > > - TinkerPop
> > > > - AsterixDB
> > >
> > > What turnover! I see that with the addition of Quickstep that's *six*
> > new
> > > podlings in one month, which has to be a record.
> > >
> > > Congrats to all the entrants and graduates!
> > >
> > > > * Credits
> > > >
> > > > - Report Manager:
> > >
> > > I added the credit for this month's erstwhile Report Manager. :)
> > >
> > > > * Did not report, expected next month
> > > >
> > > > - Concerted
> > > > - OpenAz
> > > > - Tephra
> > >
> > > The OpenAZ report was due in January and is thus 4 months late, which I
> > > have
> > > now noted on the wiki. OpenAZ's status has been raised on
> > > private@incubator
> > > and we just have to keep raising it each month until a report gets
> filed.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Fineract
> > > >
> > > > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
> > > >
> > > > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Finalising the initial release
> > > > 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
> > > previous
> > > > MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
> > > MifosX
> > > > community, website etc.
> > > > 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use
> the
> > > > proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the
> > ongoing
> > > > collaboration within the community.
> > > > 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> > > > tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community
> driven
> > > > consensus.
> > > > 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
> > > traffic
> > > > on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX
> > community
> > > > and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time
> the
> > > > recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in
> > it
> > > > (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> > > > interaction.
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
> > > great
> > > > meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
> > > members
> > > > and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> > > > interest in Fineract.
> > > >
> > > > We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
> > > Africa -
> > > > we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the
> correct
> > > > collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
> > > solutions
> > > > using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the
> > Fineract
> > > > issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
> > > enhancements
> > > > they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals
> are
> > > > setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
> > > community
> > > > should follow.
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > N/A
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > > N/A
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> > > > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> > > > [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> > >
> > > This report provides excellent insight into the challenges and
> > > opportunities
> > > before the Fineract community. Thank you for a good read, and good
> luck!
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > FreeMarker
> > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that
> > users
> > > can
> > > > test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and
> > > fixes, we
> > > > have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache
> best
> > > > practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> > > > (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the
> > modern
> > > > Java conventions).
> > >
> > > Those sound like good ideas! There really are a lot of ways to make a
> > > project
> > > easier to contribute to, but they can be hard to see when you're in the
> > > thick
> > > of it.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Gearpump
> > > >
> > > > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> > > micro-service
> > > > Actor model.
> > > >
> > > > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> > > > 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> > > > following Apache policies
> > > > 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make
> > Gearpump
> > > > contributor and end-user friendly.
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including
> a
> > > > Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> > > > awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform
> the
> > > > import.
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts
> > and
> > > > Apache JIRA accounts.
> > > >
> > > > Discussion among developers has started on
> > > > dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org <javascript:;>
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > The JIRA for the podling is active at
> > > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing
> activity.
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > No release yet.
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > > No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> > > > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
> > >
> > > This is a solid first report from Gearpump. It describes the progress
> of
> > > getting set up in the Incubator and establishes the routine of
> reporting.
> > > There may not be too much to say about community interaction at first,
> > but
> > > that's fine.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > iota
> > > >
> > > > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
> > > >
> > > > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking
> what
> > is
> > > > happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we
> > wanted
> > > to
> > > > upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
> > > upload
> > > > an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have
> > been
> > > > developing a new backend architecture and code based that
> > > implements a
> > > > significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> > > > Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django
> for
> > > our
> > > > APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently,
> > you
> > > > haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and
> repository.
> > > This
> > > > will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
> > > business
> > > > runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
> > > backend
> > > > using additional Apache components that makes the solution far
> > more
> > > > scalable.
> > > > 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the
> Apache
> > > iota
> > > > website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the
> initial
> > > > source code as quickly as we can.
> > > > 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
> > > planning
> > > > to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
> > > Noteboom
> > > > (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache
> > > Con in
> > > > May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> > > > community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first
> > release
> > > as
> > > > an Apache incubator project
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > * None at this time.
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > * This is the first submitted report
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > * This is the first submitted report
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > * None
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> > > > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> > > > [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> > > > [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
> > > >
> > > > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> > > >
> > > > johndament:
> > > > Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> > > > non-ASF way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation,
> may
> > be
> > > > better to start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
> > > >
> > > > jmclean:
> > > > I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the
> > ASF.
> > > > I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have
> > > > assurances that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the
> podling
> > > on
> > > > monthly reports for a few more months.
> > > >
> > > > drew:
> > > > 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little
> > activity
> > > as
> > > > the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping
> > > podling
> > > > on monthly reports.
> > >
> > > I'd just like to say that it can be quite challenging to do fundamental
> > > architectural design work under ASF-style collaboration and governance.
> > > What
> > > we are asking of iota is not an easy task and I don't envy them.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Quarks
> > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
> > > mailing
> > > > list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
> > > independent
> > > > contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
> > > independent
> > > > contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache
> project
> > > and
> > > > we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
> > >
> > > Nice -- it's good that Quarks understands the direction to head in.
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Rya
> > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We
> > had
> > > > some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
> > > working
> > > > solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
> > > questions,
> > > > receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The
> > minutes
> > > are
> > > > sent to the dev@ list.
> > > > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into
> the
> > > > repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue
> to
> > > > submit PRs and become committers.
> > > > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code,
> and a
> > > few
> > > > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
> > >
> > > Another very nice community development section. Thanks, Rya!
> > >
> > > > --------------------
> > > > Sirona
> > > >
> > > > Monitoring Solution.
> > > >
> > > > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
> > > >
> > > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> graduation:
> > > >
> > > > 1. increase the community
> > > > 2. do more releases
> > > > 3. make the community more active
> > > >
> > > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > > aware of?
> > > >
> > > > No
> > > >
> > > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > No change but some more user feedbacks.
> > > >
> > > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > > >
> > > > Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation
> > side.
> > > >
> > > > Date of last release:
> > > >
> > > > 2015-11-18
> > > >
> > > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by:
> > > >
> > > > [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> > > > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> > > > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > > > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> > > > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> > > > [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
> > >
> > > The reports from Sirona could stand to be a little fuller.
> > >
> > > Also, the question about last committers / PMC members really ought to
> be
> > > filled in. The Board is very persistent about asking TLPs for that
> > > information.
> > >
> > > Marvin Humphrey
> > >
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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> > >
> > >
> >
>
Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by Henry Saputra <he...@gmail.com>.
No need to be curious too much, mea culpa from me for missing signing off
the report :)
I had the impression I did sign off the report for Mnemonic, sincerely
apologize.
- Henry
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Wang, Yanping <ya...@intel.com>
wrote:
> Hi, John
>
> I think our mentors are busy during the day.
> Patrick was on vacation last week. I'd suggest give them a few more hours
> to signoff the report.
>
> Thanks,
> Yanping
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John D. Ament [mailto:johndament@apache.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:32 PM
> To: general@incubator.apache.org
> Subject: Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
>
> I'm a bit curious about how we should handle Mnemonic. I've received no
> response thus far from the podling. I'd rather not kick them out of the
> monthly report.
>
> John
>
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:28 PM Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:56 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Below is the final draft of the board report.
> >
> > The report looks good to me! Comments inline.
> >
> > > - Airflow
> > > - Gearpump
> > > - Mnemonic
> > > - Omid
> > > - Tephra
> > >
> > > * Graduations
> > >
> > > The board has motions for the following:
> > >
> > > - Apex
> > > - Johnzon
> > > - TinkerPop
> > > - AsterixDB
> >
> > What turnover! I see that with the addition of Quickstep that's *six*
> new
> > podlings in one month, which has to be a record.
> >
> > Congrats to all the entrants and graduates!
> >
> > > * Credits
> > >
> > > - Report Manager:
> >
> > I added the credit for this month's erstwhile Report Manager. :)
> >
> > > * Did not report, expected next month
> > >
> > > - Concerted
> > > - OpenAz
> > > - Tephra
> >
> > The OpenAZ report was due in January and is thus 4 months late, which I
> > have
> > now noted on the wiki. OpenAZ's status has been raised on
> > private@incubator
> > and we just have to keep raising it each month until a report gets filed.
> >
> > > --------------------
> > > Fineract
> > >
> > > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
> > >
> > > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > > 1. Finalising the initial release
> > > 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
> > previous
> > > MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
> > MifosX
> > > community, website etc.
> > > 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
> > > proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the
> ongoing
> > > collaboration within the community.
> > > 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> > > tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
> > > consensus.
> > > 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
> > traffic
> > > on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX
> community
> > > and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
> > > recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in
> it
> > > (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> > > interaction.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
> > great
> > > meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
> > members
> > > and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> > > interest in Fineract.
> > >
> > > We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
> > Africa -
> > > we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
> > > collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
> > solutions
> > > using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the
> Fineract
> > > issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
> > enhancements
> > > they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
> > > setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
> > community
> > > should follow.
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > >
> > > N/A
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > >
> > > N/A
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> > > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> > > [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> >
> > This report provides excellent insight into the challenges and
> > opportunities
> > before the Fineract community. Thank you for a good read, and good luck!
> >
> > > --------------------
> > > FreeMarker
> >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that
> users
> > can
> > > test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and
> > fixes, we
> > > have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
> > > practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> > > (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the
> modern
> > > Java conventions).
> >
> > Those sound like good ideas! There really are a lot of ways to make a
> > project
> > easier to contribute to, but they can be hard to see when you're in the
> > thick
> > of it.
> >
> > > --------------------
> > > Gearpump
> > >
> > > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> > micro-service
> > > Actor model.
> > >
> > > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > > 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> > > 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> > > following Apache policies
> > > 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make
> Gearpump
> > > contributor and end-user friendly.
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
> > > Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> > > awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
> > > import.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts
> and
> > > Apache JIRA accounts.
> > >
> > > Discussion among developers has started on
> > > dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > The JIRA for the podling is active at
> > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > >
> > > No release yet.
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > >
> > > No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> > > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> > > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> > > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> > > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
> >
> > This is a solid first report from Gearpump. It describes the progress of
> > getting set up in the Incubator and establishes the routine of reporting.
> > There may not be too much to say about community interaction at first,
> but
> > that's fine.
> >
> > > --------------------
> > > iota
> > >
> > > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
> > >
> > > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > > 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what
> is
> > > happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we
> wanted
> > to
> > > upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
> > upload
> > > an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have
> been
> > > developing a new backend architecture and code based that
> > implements a
> > > significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> > > Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for
> > our
> > > APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently,
> you
> > > haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository.
> > This
> > > will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
> > business
> > > runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
> > backend
> > > using additional Apache components that makes the solution far
> more
> > > scalable.
> > > 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache
> > iota
> > > website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
> > > source code as quickly as we can.
> > > 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
> > planning
> > > to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
> > Noteboom
> > > (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache
> > Con in
> > > May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> > > community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first
> release
> > as
> > > an Apache incubator project
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > * None at this time.
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * This is the first submitted report
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * This is the first submitted report
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > >
> > > * None
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> > > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> > > [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> > > [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
> > >
> > > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> > >
> > > johndament:
> > > Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> > > non-ASF way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may
> be
> > > better to start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
> > >
> > > jmclean:
> > > I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the
> ASF.
> > > I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have
> > > assurances that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling
> > on
> > > monthly reports for a few more months.
> > >
> > > drew:
> > > 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little
> activity
> > as
> > > the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping
> > podling
> > > on monthly reports.
> >
> > I'd just like to say that it can be quite challenging to do fundamental
> > architectural design work under ASF-style collaboration and governance.
> > What
> > we are asking of iota is not an easy task and I don't envy them.
> >
> > > --------------------
> > > Quarks
> >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
> > mailing
> > > list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
> > independent
> > > contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
> > independent
> > > contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project
> > and
> > > we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
> >
> > Nice -- it's good that Quarks understands the direction to head in.
> >
> > > --------------------
> > > Rya
> >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We
> had
> > > some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
> > working
> > > solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
> > questions,
> > > receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The
> minutes
> > are
> > > sent to the dev@ list.
> > > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> > > repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
> > > submit PRs and become committers.
> > > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a
> > few
> > > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
> >
> > Another very nice community development section. Thanks, Rya!
> >
> > > --------------------
> > > Sirona
> > >
> > > Monitoring Solution.
> > >
> > > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
> > >
> > > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> > >
> > > 1. increase the community
> > > 2. do more releases
> > > 3. make the community more active
> > >
> > > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > > aware of?
> > >
> > > No
> > >
> > > How has the community developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > No change but some more user feedbacks.
> > >
> > > How has the project developed since the last report?
> > >
> > > Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation
> side.
> > >
> > > Date of last release:
> > >
> > > 2015-11-18
> > >
> > > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by:
> > >
> > > [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> > > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> > > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> > > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> > > [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
> >
> > The reports from Sirona could stand to be a little fuller.
> >
> > Also, the question about last committers / PMC members really ought to be
> > filled in. The Board is very persistent about asking TLPs for that
> > information.
> >
> > Marvin Humphrey
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org
> > For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org
> >
> >
>
RE: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by "Wang, Yanping" <ya...@intel.com>.
Hi, John
I think our mentors are busy during the day.
Patrick was on vacation last week. I'd suggest give them a few more hours to signoff the report.
Thanks,
Yanping
-----Original Message-----
From: John D. Ament [mailto:johndament@apache.org]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2016 4:32 PM
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
I'm a bit curious about how we should handle Mnemonic. I've received no
response thus far from the podling. I'd rather not kick them out of the
monthly report.
John
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:28 PM Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:56 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Below is the final draft of the board report.
>
> The report looks good to me! Comments inline.
>
> > - Airflow
> > - Gearpump
> > - Mnemonic
> > - Omid
> > - Tephra
> >
> > * Graduations
> >
> > The board has motions for the following:
> >
> > - Apex
> > - Johnzon
> > - TinkerPop
> > - AsterixDB
>
> What turnover! I see that with the addition of Quickstep that's *six* new
> podlings in one month, which has to be a record.
>
> Congrats to all the entrants and graduates!
>
> > * Credits
> >
> > - Report Manager:
>
> I added the credit for this month's erstwhile Report Manager. :)
>
> > * Did not report, expected next month
> >
> > - Concerted
> > - OpenAz
> > - Tephra
>
> The OpenAZ report was due in January and is thus 4 months late, which I
> have
> now noted on the wiki. OpenAZ's status has been raised on
> private@incubator
> and we just have to keep raising it each month until a report gets filed.
>
> > --------------------
> > Fineract
> >
> > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
> >
> > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Finalising the initial release
> > 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
> previous
> > MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
> MifosX
> > community, website etc.
> > 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
> > proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
> > collaboration within the community.
> > 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> > tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
> > consensus.
> > 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
> traffic
> > on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
> > and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
> > recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
> > (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> > interaction.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
> great
> > meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
> members
> > and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> > interest in Fineract.
> >
> > We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
> Africa -
> > we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
> > collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
> solutions
> > using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
> > issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
> enhancements
> > they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
> > setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
> community
> > should follow.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> > [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> This report provides excellent insight into the challenges and
> opportunities
> before the Fineract community. Thank you for a good read, and good luck!
>
> > --------------------
> > FreeMarker
>
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users
> can
> > test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and
> fixes, we
> > have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
> > practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> > (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
> > Java conventions).
>
> Those sound like good ideas! There really are a lot of ways to make a
> project
> easier to contribute to, but they can be hard to see when you're in the
> thick
> of it.
>
> > --------------------
> > Gearpump
> >
> > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> micro-service
> > Actor model.
> >
> > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> > 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> > following Apache policies
> > 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
> > contributor and end-user friendly.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
> > Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> > awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
> > import.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
> > Apache JIRA accounts.
> >
> > Discussion among developers has started on
> > dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > The JIRA for the podling is active at
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > No release yet.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
>
> This is a solid first report from Gearpump. It describes the progress of
> getting set up in the Incubator and establishes the routine of reporting.
> There may not be too much to say about community interaction at first, but
> that's fine.
>
> > --------------------
> > iota
> >
> > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
> >
> > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
> > happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted
> to
> > upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
> upload
> > an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
> > developing a new backend architecture and code based that
> implements a
> > significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> > Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for
> our
> > APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
> > haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository.
> This
> > will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
> business
> > runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
> backend
> > using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
> > scalable.
> > 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache
> iota
> > website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
> > source code as quickly as we can.
> > 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
> planning
> > to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
> Noteboom
> > (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache
> Con in
> > May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> > community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release
> as
> > an Apache incubator project
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > * None at this time.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * This is the first submitted report
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * This is the first submitted report
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > * None
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> > [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> > [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > johndament:
> > Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> > non-ASF way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be
> > better to start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
> >
> > jmclean:
> > I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
> > I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have
> > assurances that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling
> on
> > monthly reports for a few more months.
> >
> > drew:
> > 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity
> as
> > the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping
> podling
> > on monthly reports.
>
> I'd just like to say that it can be quite challenging to do fundamental
> architectural design work under ASF-style collaboration and governance.
> What
> we are asking of iota is not an easy task and I don't envy them.
>
> > --------------------
> > Quarks
>
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
> mailing
> > list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
> independent
> > contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
> independent
> > contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project
> and
> > we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
>
> Nice -- it's good that Quarks understands the direction to head in.
>
> > --------------------
> > Rya
>
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
> > some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
> working
> > solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
> questions,
> > receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes
> are
> > sent to the dev@ list.
> > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> > repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
> > submit PRs and become committers.
> > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a
> few
> > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
>
> Another very nice community development section. Thanks, Rya!
>
> > --------------------
> > Sirona
> >
> > Monitoring Solution.
> >
> > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. increase the community
> > 2. do more releases
> > 3. make the community more active
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > No
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > No change but some more user feedbacks.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2015-11-18
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> > [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
>
> The reports from Sirona could stand to be a little fuller.
>
> Also, the question about last committers / PMC members really ought to be
> filled in. The Board is very persistent about asking TLPs for that
> information.
>
> Marvin Humphrey
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscribe@incubator.apache.org
> For additional commands, e-mail: general-help@incubator.apache.org
>
>
Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by "John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org>.
I'm a bit curious about how we should handle Mnemonic. I've received no
response thus far from the podling. I'd rather not kick them out of the
monthly report.
John
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 11:28 PM Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:56 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org>
> wrote:
>
> > Below is the final draft of the board report.
>
> The report looks good to me! Comments inline.
>
> > - Airflow
> > - Gearpump
> > - Mnemonic
> > - Omid
> > - Tephra
> >
> > * Graduations
> >
> > The board has motions for the following:
> >
> > - Apex
> > - Johnzon
> > - TinkerPop
> > - AsterixDB
>
> What turnover! I see that with the addition of Quickstep that's *six* new
> podlings in one month, which has to be a record.
>
> Congrats to all the entrants and graduates!
>
> > * Credits
> >
> > - Report Manager:
>
> I added the credit for this month's erstwhile Report Manager. :)
>
> > * Did not report, expected next month
> >
> > - Concerted
> > - OpenAz
> > - Tephra
>
> The OpenAZ report was due in January and is thus 4 months late, which I
> have
> now noted on the wiki. OpenAZ's status has been raised on
> private@incubator
> and we just have to keep raising it each month until a report gets filed.
>
> > --------------------
> > Fineract
> >
> > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
> >
> > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Finalising the initial release
> > 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
> previous
> > MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
> MifosX
> > community, website etc.
> > 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
> > proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
> > collaboration within the community.
> > 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> > tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
> > consensus.
> > 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
> traffic
> > on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
> > and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
> > recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
> > (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> > interaction.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
> great
> > meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
> members
> > and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> > interest in Fineract.
> >
> > We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
> Africa -
> > we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
> > collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
> solutions
> > using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
> > issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
> enhancements
> > they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
> > setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
> community
> > should follow.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> > [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> This report provides excellent insight into the challenges and
> opportunities
> before the Fineract community. Thank you for a good read, and good luck!
>
> > --------------------
> > FreeMarker
>
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users
> can
> > test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and
> fixes, we
> > have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
> > practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> > (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
> > Java conventions).
>
> Those sound like good ideas! There really are a lot of ways to make a
> project
> easier to contribute to, but they can be hard to see when you're in the
> thick
> of it.
>
> > --------------------
> > Gearpump
> >
> > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> micro-service
> > Actor model.
> >
> > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> > 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> > following Apache policies
> > 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
> > contributor and end-user friendly.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
> > Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> > awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
> > import.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
> > Apache JIRA accounts.
> >
> > Discussion among developers has started on
> > dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > The JIRA for the podling is active at
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > No release yet.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
>
> This is a solid first report from Gearpump. It describes the progress of
> getting set up in the Incubator and establishes the routine of reporting.
> There may not be too much to say about community interaction at first, but
> that's fine.
>
> > --------------------
> > iota
> >
> > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
> >
> > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
> > happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted
> to
> > upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
> upload
> > an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
> > developing a new backend architecture and code based that
> implements a
> > significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> > Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for
> our
> > APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
> > haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository.
> This
> > will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
> business
> > runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
> backend
> > using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
> > scalable.
> > 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache
> iota
> > website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
> > source code as quickly as we can.
> > 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
> planning
> > to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
> Noteboom
> > (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache
> Con in
> > May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> > community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release
> as
> > an Apache incubator project
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > * None at this time.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * This is the first submitted report
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * This is the first submitted report
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > * None
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> > [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> > [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > johndament:
> > Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> > non-ASF way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be
> > better to start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
> >
> > jmclean:
> > I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
> > I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have
> > assurances that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling
> on
> > monthly reports for a few more months.
> >
> > drew:
> > 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity
> as
> > the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping
> podling
> > on monthly reports.
>
> I'd just like to say that it can be quite challenging to do fundamental
> architectural design work under ASF-style collaboration and governance.
> What
> we are asking of iota is not an easy task and I don't envy them.
>
> > --------------------
> > Quarks
>
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
> mailing
> > list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
> independent
> > contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
> independent
> > contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project
> and
> > we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
>
> Nice -- it's good that Quarks understands the direction to head in.
>
> > --------------------
> > Rya
>
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
> > some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
> working
> > solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
> questions,
> > receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes
> are
> > sent to the dev@ list.
> > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> > repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
> > submit PRs and become committers.
> > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a
> few
> > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
>
> Another very nice community development section. Thanks, Rya!
>
> > --------------------
> > Sirona
> >
> > Monitoring Solution.
> >
> > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. increase the community
> > 2. do more releases
> > 3. make the community more active
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > No
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > No change but some more user feedbacks.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2015-11-18
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> > [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
>
> The reports from Sirona could stand to be a little fuller.
>
> Also, the question about last committers / PMC members really ought to be
> filled in. The Board is very persistent about asking TLPs for that
> information.
>
> Marvin Humphrey
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Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 3:56 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Below is the final draft of the board report.
The report looks good to me! Comments inline.
> - Airflow
> - Gearpump
> - Mnemonic
> - Omid
> - Tephra
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> - Apex
> - Johnzon
> - TinkerPop
> - AsterixDB
What turnover! I see that with the addition of Quickstep that's *six* new
podlings in one month, which has to be a record.
Congrats to all the entrants and graduates!
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager:
I added the credit for this month's erstwhile Report Manager. :)
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Concerted
> - OpenAz
> - Tephra
The OpenAZ report was due in January and is thus 4 months late, which I have
now noted on the wiki. OpenAZ's status has been raised on private@incubator
and we just have to keep raising it each month until a report gets filed.
> --------------------
> Fineract
>
> Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
>
> Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Finalising the initial release
> 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the previous
> MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the MifosX
> community, website etc.
> 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
> proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
> collaboration within the community.
> 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
> consensus.
> 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of traffic
> on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
> and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
> recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
> (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> interaction.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a great
> meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community members
> and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> interest in Fineract.
>
> We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout Africa -
> we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
> collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Individual members of the leading partner organizations building solutions
> using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
> issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and enhancements
> they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
> setting a good example that other individuals from our partner community
> should follow.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
This report provides excellent insight into the challenges and opportunities
before the Fineract community. Thank you for a good read, and good luck!
> --------------------
> FreeMarker
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users can
> test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and fixes, we
> have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
> practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
> Java conventions).
Those sound like good ideas! There really are a lot of ways to make a project
easier to contribute to, but they can be hard to see when you're in the thick
of it.
> --------------------
> Gearpump
>
> Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the micro-service
> Actor model.
>
> Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> following Apache policies
> 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
> contributor and end-user friendly.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
> Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
> import.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
> Apache JIRA accounts.
>
> Discussion among developers has started on
> dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The JIRA for the podling is active at
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
This is a solid first report from Gearpump. It describes the progress of
getting set up in the Incubator and establishes the routine of reporting.
There may not be too much to say about community interaction at first, but
that's fine.
> --------------------
> iota
>
> Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
>
> iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
> happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted to
> upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than upload
> an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
> developing a new backend architecture and code based that implements a
> significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for our
> APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
> haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository. This
> will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose business
> runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the backend
> using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
> scalable.
> 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache iota
> website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
> source code as quickly as we can.
> 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are planning
> to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott Noteboom
> (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache Con in
> May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release as
> an Apache incubator project
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * None at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * This is the first submitted report
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * This is the first submitted report
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * None
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> non-ASF way. Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be
> better to start off writing new code in the ASF repos.
>
> jmclean:
> I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
> I've contacted them a few times with a please explain and have
> assurances that this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling on
> monthly reports for a few more months.
>
> drew:
> 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity as
> the team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping podling
> on monthly reports.
I'd just like to say that it can be quite challenging to do fundamental
architectural design work under ASF-style collaboration and governance. What
we are asking of iota is not an easy task and I don't envy them.
> --------------------
> Quarks
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the mailing
> list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of independent
> contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of independent
> contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project and
> we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
Nice -- it's good that Quarks understands the direction to head in.
> --------------------
> Rya
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
> some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a working
> solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask questions,
> receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes are
> sent to the dev@ list.
> * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
> submit PRs and become committers.
> * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
> students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
Another very nice community development section. Thanks, Rya!
> --------------------
> Sirona
>
> Monitoring Solution.
>
> Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. increase the community
> 2. do more releases
> 3. make the community more active
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No change but some more user feedbacks.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-11-18
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
The reports from Sirona could stand to be a little fuller.
Also, the question about last committers / PMC members really ought to be
filled in. The Board is very persistent about asking TLPs for that
information.
Marvin Humphrey
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Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by Marvin Humphrey <ma...@rectangular.com>.
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 6:13 AM, John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org> wrote:
> Got it. If you're having issues with the wiki, I'd be happy to tick your
> name for you (since we have email confirmation).
I edited the wiki on Upayavira's behalf.
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Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by "John D. Ament" <jo...@apache.org>.
Got it. If you're having issues with the wiki, I'd be happy to tick your
name for you (since we have email confirmation).
John
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 8:52 AM Upayavira <uv...@odoko.co.uk> wrote:
> Regarding Wave, I'm happy to sign off the report, just didn't get time
> and got stuck regaining access to my wiki account given slow responses
> from Moin. And yes, if Wave continues in the incubator, it really could
> do with more mentors.
>
> Upayavira
>
> On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, at 11:56 AM, John D. Ament wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > Below is the final draft of the board report. Remember, mentors have
> > until
> > tomorrow end of day to sign off on podlings. We have two podlings with
> > no
> > sign offs - Mnemonic and Wave. Wave is especially concerning since its
> > just Upyavira now.
> >
> > I've extended the months of the non-reporting podlings at this point. I
> > would ask that if any of those podlings do create a report between now
> > and
> > end of day tomorrow, to first reach out on the general@ list to confirm.
> > I'd rather a podling miss a report than hurry a report that few people
> > can
> > review.
> >
> > - John
> > ---------------------------------------------
> >
> > Incubator PMC report for April 2016
> >
> > The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
> > codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
> >
> > There are 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We have four
> > podlings planning to graduate this month and added five podlings to
> > the roster. As is typical in the months following the annual members
> > meeting, we have seen a jump in the number of IPMC members join.
> >
> > * Community
> >
> > New IPMC members:
> >
> > - Marvin Humphrey
> > - Suneel Marthi
> > - Uma Gangumalla
> > - Henri Yandell
> >
> > People who left the IPMC:
> >
> > - Jukka Zitting
> >
> > * New Podlings
> >
> > - Airflow
> > - Gearpump
> > - Mnemonic
> > - Omid
> > - Tephra
> >
> > * Graduations
> >
> > The board has motions for the following:
> >
> > - Apex
> > - Johnzon
> > - TinkerPop
> > - AsterixDB
> >
> > * Releases
> >
> > The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> > March:
> >
> > 2016-03-02 Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
> > 2016-03-03 Apache Apex Malhar 3.3.1-incubating
> > 2016-03-03 Apache Htrace 4.1.0-incubating
> > 2016-03-04 Apache Mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating
> > 2016-03-09 Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating
> > 2016-03-10 Apache Ranger 0.5.2-incubating
> > 2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-language 0.15.1-incubating
> > 2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-osgi 0.2.1-incubating
> > 2016-03-14 Apache MADlib v1.9alpha-rc2-incubating
> > 2016-03-21 Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating
> > 2016-03-25 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating
> > 2016-03-27 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-incubating
> >
> >
> > * IP Clearance
> >
> > - Apache Sling Dynamic Includes
> >
> > * Legal / Trademarks
> >
> >
> >
> > * Infrastructure
> >
> > We continue to struggle with podling report reminders.
> > A suite of manual reminders were sent, some were received
> > by the podlings and some were not.
> >
> > * Miscellaneous
> >
> > Based on group understanding, it appears that the Concerted podling
> > will retire soon.
> >
> >
> >
> > * Credits
> >
> > - Report Manager:
> >
> > ------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
> >
> > * Still getting started at the Incubator
> >
> > - Gearpump
> > - iota
> > - Joshua
> > - Metron
> > - Milagro
> > - Mnemonic
> > - Quarks
> >
> > * Not yet ready to graduate
> >
> > No release:
> >
> > - Hawq
> > - Horn
> > - Impala
> > - Rya
> > - Toree
> >
> > Community growth:
> >
> > - Fineract
> > - Geode
> > - MADlib
> > - Ranger
> > - Wave
> >
> > * Ready to graduate
> >
> > The Board has motions for the following:
> >
> > - Apex
> > - Johnzon
> > - TinkerPop
> > - AsterixDB
> >
> > * Did not report, expected next month
> >
> > - Concerted
> > - OpenAz
> > - Tephra
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Table of Contents
> > Apex
> > BatchEE
> > Concerted
> > DataFu
> > Fineract
> > FreeMarker
> > Gearpump
> > Geode
> > HAWQ
> > HORN
> > HTrace
> > Impala
> > iota
> > Johnzon
> > Joshua
> > MADlib
> > Metron
> > Milagro
> > Mnemonic
> > Mynewt
> > ODF Toolkit
> > Quarks
> > Ranger
> > Rya
> > Sirona
> > Toree
> >
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > --------------------
> > Apex
> >
> > Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
> > unifies stream processing and batch processing.
> >
> > Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > None. Incubator graduation VOTE passed: https://s.apache.org/qhTf
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware
> > of?
> >
> > Resolution to establish Apache Apex as TLP submitted to board.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > The community is very engaged with the development of the project. We
> > see
> > continious uptick in mailing list participaton (2180 messages on dev@
> > for
> > March, 122+ subscribers).
> >
> > The community discussed graduation, addressed outstanding issues and
> > completed VOTE.
> >
> > The community has been active building additional meetup groups:
> > http://s.apache.org/jKT
> > Many presentations and uptick in engagement.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Release 3.3.1-icubating of Malhar on 2016-03-02
> >
> > Various metrics for March are as follows:
> > +---------------------------------------------------+
> > | Metric | Core | Malhar |
> > +---------------------------------------------------+
> > | Non Merge Commits | 52 | 22 |
> > | Contributors | 10 | 11 |
> > | Jira New Issues | 40 | 31 |
> > | Resolved Issues | 43 | 20 |
> > | Pull Requests merged | 33 | 12 |
> > | Pull Requests proposed | 2 | 11 |
> > +---------------------------------------------------+
> >
> > We are anticipating patch release 3.2.1 in April.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2016-03-02 Apex (Malhar) 3.3.1-incubating
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > 2 PPMC members and 1 committer were added since December.
> > PPMC and committer list was updated on the status page.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](apex) Chris Nauroth
> > [ ](apex) Alan Gates
> > [X](apex) Hitesh Shah
> > [X](apex) Justin Mclean
> > [ ](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
> > [X](apex) Ted Dunning
> >
> > --------------------
> > BatchEE
> >
> > Apache BatchEE aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
> > set of useful extensions for this specification.
> >
> > BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > The PPMC feels that the project is ready to graduate soon.
> >
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > No
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > Bugfixing continues in BatchEE and we are actively working with the
> > JBatch community towards a new JBatch specification
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > BatchEE contributes to the JBatch specification to make the
> > project moving forward in the right direction.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2015-12-08
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > 2015-12-11
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> > [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
> > [X](batchee) Mark Struberg
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > johndament:
> > It seems that the community posted one report, but then a mentor
> > posted
> > a largely reworded report. No evidence of a discussion seems to have
> > been done on public mailing lists for either report.
> >
> > --------------------
> >
> > Concerted
> >
> > Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data
> > engines.
> >
> > Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14.
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > Julian Hyde (jhyde):
> >
> > No report, despite prodding from Chris, and no activity on lists.
> > I think this one's dead.
> >
> > Jake Farrell (jfarrell):
> >
> > No activity so far in 2016.
> >
> > Chris Nauroth (cnauroth):
> >
> > There has been no activity on the project for several months, and we
> > don't see a viable way to salvage it. We are discussing closing it down.
> >
> > --------------------
> > DataFu
> >
> > DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
> > higher
> > level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides
> > functions
> > for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
> > sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop
> > jobs
> > for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
> >
> > DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Grow user and contributor base
> > 2. Increased committer activity
> > 3. Continued releases
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * A new contributor opened several JIRAs regarding improvements and
> > contributed patches. Two have been committed so far.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * Improved instructions on loading projects in Eclipse based on
> > discussion
> > in JIRA.
> > * Added checks in build system to catch issues using wrong JDK version.
> > * Some UDFs were improved to be more efficient.
> > * A new UDF is pending review.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2015-11-14
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected
> >
> > November 2014
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
> > [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
> > [X](datafu) Ted Dunning
> >
> > --------------------
> > Fineract
> >
> > Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
> >
> > Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Finalising the initial release
> > 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
> > previous
> > MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
> > MifosX
> > community, website etc.
> > 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
> > proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
> > collaboration within the community.
> > 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> > tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
> > consensus.
> > 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
> > traffic
> > on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
> > and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
> > recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
> > (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> > interaction.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
> > great
> > meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
> > members
> > and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> > interest in Fineract.
> >
> > We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
> > Africa -
> > we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
> > collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
> > solutions
> > using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
> > issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
> > enhancements
> > they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
> > setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
> > community
> > should follow.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > N/A
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> > [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> > [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
> >
> > --------------------
> > FreeMarker
> >
> > FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text
> > output
> > based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library
> > for
> > programmers.
> >
> > FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Finding more active contributors
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > There were no changes
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users
> > can
> > test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and fixes,
> > we
> > have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
> > practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> > (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
> > Java conventions).
> >
> > The legal/policy issue with the web site domain (INFRA-10787) was
> > settled,
> > and we are using our historical domain again (freemarker.org) until
> > graduation.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2016-03-28
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > 2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
> > [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
> > [ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
> > [X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
> > [X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
> >
> > --------------------
> > Gearpump
> >
> > Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> > micro-service
> > Actor model.
> >
> > Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> > 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> > following Apache policies
> > 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
> > contributor and end-user friendly.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
> > Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> > awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
> > import.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
> > Apache JIRA accounts.
> >
> > Discussion among developers has started on
> > dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > The JIRA for the podling is active at
> > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > No release yet.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> > [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> > [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> > [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> > [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
> >
> > --------------------
> > Geode
> >
> > Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
> > access
> > to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
> > architectures.
> >
> > Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Rename packages to org.apache
> > 2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers
> > outside
> > of Pivotal.
> > 3. Establish a release cadence.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > - We have been able to address the “Three most important issues to move
> > towards graduation” from the previous report
> > 1. We had our first public release
> > 2. We Added 4 new committers, one of which is outside Pivotal
> > 3. We are about to have a second release, establishing a regular
> > release
> > cadence
> > - We had a GeodeSummit http://geodesummit.com/
> > - 22 sessions (including Keynote)
> > - Sessions included current use cases as well as integrations with
> > other
> > Apache projects
> > - Over 100 attendees
> > - Received project proposal after the summit.
> > - The Geode Clubhouse hosted a meeting covering a walk through the
> > different approaches for caching data in a Spring based application
> > with
> > Apache Geode by Luke Shannon
> > - The breakdown of JIRA tickets is the following:
> > Q3 / 2015 - 65 created, 19 resolved.
> > Q4 / 2015 - 342 created, 227 resolved.
> > Q1 / 2016 - 438 created, 362 resolved.
> > Q2 / 2016 - 8 created, 12 resolved (As of Apr 4th)
> > - There was a total of 123 pull requests on GitHub with 6 still open.
> > - The breakdown of the mailing lists messages for January, Feb, March
> > of
> > 2016:
> > org.apache.geode.issues 4300
> > org.apache.geode.commits 3731
> > org.apache.geode.dev 2154
> > org.apache.geode.user 294
> > - There are now 153 subscribers on the dev and 145 on the user mailing
> > lists.
> > - Community events:
> > - January 2016:
> > - FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels:
> > - Taxi trip analysis (DEBS grand-challenge) with Apache Geode
> > (incubating)
> > - Big Data meets Fast Data: an scalable hybrid real-time
> > transactional
> > and analytics solution
> > - February 2016:
> > - Seattle Java User’s Group (Talk about Introduction to Apache
> > Geode)
> > - March 2016:
> > - Geode Summit in Palo Alto, California
> > - Geode meetup in Palo Alto
> > (http://www.meetup.com/Pivotal-Open-Source-Hub/events/228983898/
> )
> > - Apache Apex (incubating) meetup featuring Geode integration
> > (http://www.meetup.com/Apex-Bay-Area-Chapter/events/228593080/)
> >
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > - Had first release, close to the second release (with 134 out of 138
> > issues resolved)
> > - We elected a release manager for the first release and have rotated
> > that
> > responsibility for the second release
> > - Had a discussion about how to number the releases
> > - Voted on the Release candidates, rejected the first but the second
> > release candidate was voted as the final release
> > - The community discussed the criteria for becoming a committer and
> > learned the correct way of nominating new committers.
> > - JIRA components were refined after a discussion on the mailing list.
> > - Consensus was achieved for the scope for the releases on the mailing
> > list.
> > - Decision was made not to rename the command line tool on the mailing
> > list.
> > - Each commit and pull request is run through CI using Travis CI
> > - Removed @author tags
> > - First release published to maven central
> > - Javadocs hosted on the project website.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2016-02-06
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > - Jinmei Liao (2016-01-26)
> > - Sai Boorlagadda (2016-02-19)
> > - Nitin Lamba (2016-03-08)
> > - Dave Barnes (2016-03-30)
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
> > [ ](geode) Chip Childers
> > [ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
> > [ ](geode) Jan Iversen
> > [ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
> > [ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
> > [X](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
> >
> > --------------------
> > HAWQ
> >
> > Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
> > technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
> > convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS
> > natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear
> > scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully
> > interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a
> > complete,
> > standards compliant SQL interface.
> >
> > HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Produce our first Apache Release
> > 2. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on
> > making
> > sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and
> > discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the
> > public dev mailing list
> > 3. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
> > binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least
> > installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware
> > of?
> >
> > Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. One HAWQ Nest community meeting (topic: GPORCA: Query Optimization
> > as a
> > Service) Video: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest0223yt
> > 2. The community shows pretty high activities. In Dev, there have been
> > 816
> > messages on dev@/user@ in March 2016.
> > 3. Got around 29 pull requests from contributors that are not in the
> > initial committer team.
> > 4. GSoC 2016: 6 topics created for it.
> > 5. FOSDEM 2016 event:
> > https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/hpc_bigdata_hadoopsql/
> >
> >
> https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/postgresql_unified_framework_for_big_data_foreign_data_wrappers/
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Main features/improvements added include:
> > a) Hawq-473 Add fault reason and history into hawq catalog
> > b) HAWQ-404 Add sort during INSERT of append only row oriented
> > partition tables
> > c) HAWQ-558 Improve performance of truncate on small tables
> > d) HAWQ-532 HAWQ-580 HAWQ-587 Enhance the virtual segment number
> > selection method
> > e) HAWQ-551 Enhance explain analyze with more information on data
> > locality and resource manager
> > f) HAWQ-546 Enhance \d for HCatalog tables
> > g) HAWQ-144 Support HAWQ build on MAC
> > h) HAWQ-597 Add Travis CI(OSX) for MAC
> > i) Critical bug fixes.
> > 2. 135 new JIRAs filed, 116 resolved (In Mar 2016)
> > 3. 134 code commits (In Mar 2016)
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > We have not had a release yet.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > No new committers/members from initial.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [](hawq) Alan Gates
> > [](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
> > [](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
> > [](hawq) Thejas Nair
> > [X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > JM (shepherd): A couple on minor issues around communication on list
> > and
> > releases but mentors are on top on it.
> >
> > --------------------
> > HORN
> >
> > HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for
> > large-
> > scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
> >
> > HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Increase development velocity
> > 2. Make a 0.1 release
> > 3. Refocus the direction we want to take this project.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> >
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > Number of subscribers has increased slightly, development has however
> > been
> > slow.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > We have decided that we need to refocus on what we want HORN to look
> > like
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > XXXX-XX-XX
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > October
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](horn) Luciano Resende
> > [ ](horn) Robin Anil
> > [x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
> >
> > --------------------
> > HTrace
> >
> > HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
> > written in java.
> >
> > HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
> > 2. Continue to explore projects integratiing HTrace
> > 3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * YCSB community are working on integrating HTrace.
> > * Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Apache HTrace are being
> > planned.
> > There are proposals such as
> > * distributed tracing for s3 and other alternative Hadoop FS
> > * Kudu span receiver
> > * integrating HTrace into Hadoop YARN
> > * HTrace'ing in Apache Nutch
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * +70 issues were fixed and released as part of 4.1.0-incubating.
> > * Improved htraced a lot in Web-UI, robustness, metrics and logging
> > * Added Docker support for development
> > * Added Documentation for developers
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
> > [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
> > [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
> > [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> > [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> > [ ](htrace) Michael Stack
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > johndament:
> > This podling's come pretty far. Maybe time to graduate soon?
> >
> > --------------------
> > Impala
> >
> > Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data
> > stored
> > in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
> >
> > Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Transition of development workflows to ASF (see
> > https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221)
> > 2. Initial release as incubating project.
> > 3. Community growth
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > There have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
> > incubation began. We continue to see an uptick in external
> > contributions,
> > with two patches from new contributors this month. One contributor
> > pleasingly reported it was "great to work closely with Impala
> > community".
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > We have put together a list of tasks required to move development of
> > Impala from Cloudera's infrastructure to the ASF. Since Impala was
> > already
> > a well-established project before the Incubator proposal, there is
> > perhaps
> > more decoupling required than for more nascent projects. The list is at
> > https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221, and is being actively
> > worked on. Note that this doesn't cover the standard podling tasks
> > (like
> > name search, etc).
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > None since entering incubation.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > None since entering incubation.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](impala) Tom White
> > [ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
> > [ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
> > [ ](impala) Brock Noland
> >
> > --------------------
> > iota
> >
> > Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
> >
> > iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
> > happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted
> > to
> > upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
> > upload
> > an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
> > developing a new backend architecture and code based that implements
> > a
> > significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> > Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for
> > our
> > APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
> > haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository.
> > This
> > will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
> > business
> > runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
> > backend
> > using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
> > scalable.
> > 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache
> > iota
> > website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
> > source code as quickly as we can.
> > 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
> > planning
> > to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
> > Noteboom
> > (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache Con
> > in
> > May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> > community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release
> > as
> > an Apache incubator project
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > * None at this time.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * This is the first submitted report
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * This is the first submitted report
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > * None
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> > [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> > [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> > [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > johndament:
> > Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> > non-ASF way.
> > Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be better to
> > start
> > off
> > writing new code in the ASF repos.
> >
> > jmclean:
> > I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
> > I've
> > contacted them a few times with a please explain and have assurances
> > that
> > this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling on monthly
> > reports
> > for a
> > few more months.
> >
> > drew:
> > 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity
> > as
> > the
> > team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping podling on
> > monthly
> > reports.
> >
> > --------------------
> > Johnzon
> >
> > Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
> >
> > Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Currently graduation, so nothing but issues necessary for graduation
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > * Currently graduating to a TPL
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
> > from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 20 msgs (on
> > average) messages per month.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > The project did its 10th incubator release. During the last three
> > month 9
> > jira issues were reported and 6 of them fixed. Project has also
> > started
> > to implement the upcoming JSR-374 and JSR-367 specification. The
> > project
> > has also voted for a logo.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2016-FEB-17 (0.9.3-incubating)
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, last PMC member was elected
> > 2015-04-09 (Hendrik Saly)
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
> > [ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > johndament:
> > Podling is planning to graduate, but sign off received from only one
> > mentor.
> >
> > --------------------
> > Joshua
> >
> > Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
> >
> > Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure
> > (nearly
> > complete)
> > 2. Building up community and attracting developers
> > 3. Putting out regular Joshua releases
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and
> > things are proceeding nicely.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been
> > extended to them.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due
> > to
> > caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2015-11-05 (prior to incubation)
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > - Felix Hieber (2016-04-01)
> > - Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01)
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
> > [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
> > [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
> > [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
> > [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
> >
> > --------------------
> >
> > MADlib
> >
> > Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
> >
> > MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
> > 2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
> > contributors.
> > 3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model
> > required
> > by the "Apache Way”.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware
> > of?
> >
> > None
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Held three community calls in Q1 2016. Each call featured a
> > different
> > member of the Apache MADlib community presenting on a topic of
> > interest
> > to them:
> > * Jan 15th - Bayesian Analysis of Binomial Response Models on MPP
> > Databases (Gautam Muralidhar)
> > * Feb 16th - An Overview of GWR Analysis of Spatial Data (Chenliang
> > Wang)
> > * Mar 16th - MADlib on PostgreSQL and PGXN (AJ Welch)
> > 2. One new committer has been added to the project (Xiaocheng Tang)
> > 3. Presentation of Apache MADlib at FOSDEM’16 in Brussels (Frank
> > McQuillan)
> > 4. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
> > appropriate JIRAs (e.g., 111 emails on dev@ mailing list in Feb)
> > 5. Several Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidates have expressed
> > interest
> > in working on MADlib projects via dev@ mailing list.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. 1st ASF release MADlib v1.9alpha on 3/11/16 which was intended to
> > clear
> > all potential IP issues in the code base and make it legally ready
> > to
> > be adopted by the community.
> > 2. 2nd ASF release MADlib v1.9 is currently in IPMC voting as of this
> > writing on 4/6/16. The goal of this 2nd release is general
> > availability of MADlib v1.9 for community use.
> > 3. Some features in the latest release: path functions, support vector
> > machines, advanced matrix operations, covariance matrix, proportion
> > of
> > variance for PCA, support for Apache HAWQ (incubating) 2.0.
> > 4. 15 JIRAs created and 27 resolved in last 30 days.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > Apache MADlib (incubating) v1.9alpha on 3/11/16.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > Xiaocheng Tang on 1/14/16.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
> > [X](madlib) Ted Dunning
> > [X](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
> >
> > --------------------
> > Metron
> >
> > Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order
> > to
> > offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
> > provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
> > storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while
> > applying
> > the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
> > within a single platform.
> >
> > Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> > Graduation.
> >
> > - Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
> > - Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
> > - Make an Apache release
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to
> > be aware of
> >
> > - We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
> >
> > * How has the community developed since the last report
> >
> > - We added one additional committer, David Lyle
> > - We accepted 2 separate contributions from non-committers interested
> > in Metron
> > - We saw an uptick in interest from the community on the dev boards
> > which
> > corresponds to people trying the product prior to an official
> > release,
> > which is a good sign.
> >
> > * How has the project developed since the last report
> >
> > - We closed 20 more Jiras and are in the latest stages of releasing an
> > Apache release.
> > - We added deployment automation for EC2 so trying out Metron in a
> > multi-node environment is even easier
> > - We integrated the CI environment that infra set up for us at our
> > request
> > so that unit tests and apache rat license checks are run on every
> > pull
> > request submitted
> > - We added support for indexing enriched sensor capture data into
> > Apache
> > Solr indexing as well as Elasticsearch
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > --
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > David Lyle on 22 March 2016
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
> > [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
> > [X](metron) Owen O'Malley
> > [ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
> > [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
> >
> > --------------------
> > Milagro
> >
> > Distributed Cryptography;
> > M-Pin and other pairing protocols for Identity and Trust
> >
> > Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Import the software: The source code is already prepared and placed
> > in
> > repositories on GitHub – soon to be imported to Apache repositories.
> > This includes a full Milagro MFA implementation.
> > 2. Awareness among developers: Milagro announcement – during ApacheCon
> > North America – May 2016
> > 3. General Awareness
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > n/a
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > No substantial developments to report. The project is targeting
> > community
> > development following Apachecon presentations.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Project members are preparing to present the project at ApacheCon with
> > a
> > view to connecting with the wider Apache community and finding
> > synergies
> > with other projects.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > n/a
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > February, as reported.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
> > [ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
> > [x](milagro) Nick Kew
> >
> > --------------------
> > Mnemonic
> >
> > Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place
> > structured
> > data processing and computing.
> >
> > Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
> > Mnemonic code was moved into ASF on 3/24
> >
> > Various metrics for March are as follows:
> >
> > +--------------------------------------------+
> > | Metric | counts |
> > +--------------------------------------------+
> > | Non Merge Commits | 82 |
> > | Contributors | 10 |
> > | Jira New Issues | 13 |
> > | Resolved Issues | 4 |
> > | Pull Requests merged | 8 |
> > | Pull Requests proposed | 8 |
> > +--------------------------------------------+
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Apache releases: we are preparing 0.1.0 release
> > 2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions,
> > adding new contributors
> > 3. Develop new features
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > Everything is on track, nothing urgent at this time.
> >
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > The project is in early stage in setting up the infra. In addition to
> > contributors listed in Mnemonic proposal, we had one new contributor
> > joined us. We are actively discuss with Arrow community in dev list for
> > the idea on integration. Apache Arrow community is very interested in
> > Mnemonic integration for extending Arrow into persistent memory and
> > storage.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > We ported source code in Apache on 3/24 after SGA was filed on 3/23. We
> > are doing several refactorings and defining coding guidelines to fit
> > Apache project standard.
> >
> > We are working on enabling Apache Arrow to use Mnemonic as underlying
> > pooling mechanism.
> >
> > We are designing the native computing infrastructure, built native
> > computing interface code.
> >
> > Bug tracking JIRA setup was done, 13 issues were filed. 4 issues were
> > solved.
> >
> > Mailing list discussions are happening actively related to
> > infrastructure,
> > code standard, features for the project.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > No release yet, working on 0.1.0 release
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > No election, since the project is just starting. As part of incubation
> > process, initial committers and contributors were proposed and added.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
> > [ ](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
> > [ ](mnemonic) James Taylor
> > [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> >
> >
> > --------------------
> > Mynewt
> >
> > Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems
> > like
> > wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of
> > 32-bit
> > MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
> >
> > Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Make further releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS image
> > with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity. Do
> > subsequent releases to indicate thorough understanding,
> > repeatability,
> > and maturity of process.
> > 2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project
> > contributors to achieve self-governance
> > 3. Expand community - attract new project contributors and users, grow
> > committer base
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Healthy, active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers
> > 2. Continual outside interest by 3rd parties. Outreach via conferences,
> > exhibits, one on one meetings, beta testers, GSoC participation.
> > 3. Vigorous discussions and implementation decisions via proposals and
> > voting on @dev mailing list.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Releases: Two releases so far - first on 22nd Feb, next on 18th
> > March
> > - Identified and fixed license issues, regular process established
> > to
> > check for license issues esp. with third party software
> > - Tagging process and release candidate naming process tested and
> > used
> > - Voting process and timelines established and used
> > 2. Documentation support: Several committers added documentation either
> > through direct git pushes or pull requests on github mirror.
> > 3. Effort towards self governance:
> > - Two releases completed successfully.
> > - Two committer candidates going through voting for committer status
> > after meeting threshold of patch submissions.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2016-03-18
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > At the start
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
> > [X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
> > [X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
> > [ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
> > [ ](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
> >
> > --------------------
> > ODF Toolkit
> >
> > Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation
> > of
> > OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
> >
> > ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Attract more developers
> > 2. Have frequent releases
> > 3. Decide on possible ways to graduate
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > Not many developers are active currently.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > Several patches have been added to JIRA by community members. Issues
> > have
> > been reported.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Several patches have been applied, a new release is planned.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2014-06-02
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > 2012-10-29
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
> > [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
> > [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > Hopefully the new release will generate a little more interest. I'd
> > suggest we wait a few more months to see the effect of that, before
> > deciding on what to do with the podling (staying in the incubator for
> > ever
> > isn't an option!)
> >
> > --------------------
> > Quarks
> >
> > Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that
> > can
> > be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local,
> > real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
> > equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all
> > kinds
> > (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
> > centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely
> > analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
> >
> > Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
> > around Quarks project
> > 2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks
> > 3. Complete migration of website to host all content at Apache (javadoc
> > is
> > still on Github).
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > Nothing jumps to mind.
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
> > mailing
> > list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
> > independent
> > contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
> > independent
> > contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project
> > and
> > we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * The project has successfully migrated from Github-based development
> > to
> > using the Apache git repo, Jira, and the mailing lists.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > No changes from the initial committers.
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner
> > [ ](quarks) Luciano Resende
> > [X](quarks) Katherine Marsden
> > [X](quarks) Justin Mclean
> >
> > --------------------
> > Ranger
> >
> > The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
> > comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
> >
> > Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
> > 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users
> > and
> > contributors.
> > 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > None
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Added new contributors:
> > (Bolke de Bruin,Deepak Sharma,Colm O hEigeartaigh,Tushar
> > Dudhatra,mugdha.varadkar,pradeep.agrawal,mehul,ankita.sinha)
> > Total Contributor Count: 23
> > 2. Mailing list activity since last report (Dec-01-2015 to
> > Mar-31-2016):
> > @dev 1534
> > @user 153
> > @commit 345
> > 3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Dec-01-2015
> > before Mar-31-2016):
> > Created: 153
> > Resolved: 140
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Released two minor releases :
> > 0.5.1 release on 01/26/2016
> > 0.5.2 release on 02/29/2016
> > 2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
> > a. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache
> > Ranger
> > KMS.
> > b. Working to provide both Column-level-masking and
> > Row-level-filtering
> > support for data security
> > c. Working to add Tag-Based authorization policies
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > Feb-29-2016
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](ranger) Alan Gates
> > [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
> > [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
> > [ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
> > [X](ranger) Owen O'Malley
> >
> > --------------------
> > Rya
> >
> > Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> > supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system
> > built
> > on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
> > query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
> > multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
> > SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
> >
> > Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
> > part of the Apache Foundation
> > 2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors
> > can
> > become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the
> > community.
> > 3. Add new committers to the project.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware
> > of?
> >
> > No
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
> > some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
> > working
> > solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
> > questions,
> > receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes
> > are
> > sent to the dev@ list.
> > * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> > repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
> > submit PRs and become committers.
> > * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a
> > few
> > students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > * Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
> > * Created a website for the project.
> > * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
> > * Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices,
> > extensions to query planning to support more complex precomputed join
> > indices, free text search support for MongoDB, additional Geo
> > indexing
> > for MongoDB, extensions of examples for both Accumulo and MongoDB
> > backed
> > Rya
> >
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > Not applicable
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > Not applicable
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [x](rya) Josh Elser
> > [x](rya) Edward J. Yoon
> > [x](rya) Sean Busbey
> > [x](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
> >
> > sb: project activity was a little slow, due to other time commitments for
> > the dev community, but folks had a great discussion around next steps
> > when it came time for a draft report.
> >
> > --------------------
> > Sirona
> >
> > Monitoring Solution.
> >
> > Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. increase the community
> > 2. do more releases
> > 3. make the community more active
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > No
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > No change but some more user feedbacks.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > 2015-11-18
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> >
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> > [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> > [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> > [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> > [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> > [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
> >
> > --------------------
> > Toree
> >
> > Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and
> > remotely
> > access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between
> > applications
> > and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the
> > user
> > with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
> > Python, R or SQL.
> >
> > Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
> > have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
> > with AL2.
> > 2. Make a release: nearing completion
> > 3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
> > community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three
> > independent
> > contributors)
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> > TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > 1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> > 2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
> > Toree.
> > 3. First external contribution made by user @dongjoon-hyun
> > 4. Apache Toree was featured at SF Data Science meetup
> > https://github.com/asimjalis/apache-toree-quickstart
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > None since incubation.
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > No new additions since incubation
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](toree) Luciano Resende
> > [ ](toree) Reynold Xin
> > [X](toree) Hitesh Shah
> > [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
> >
> > --------------------
> > Wave
> >
> > A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich
> > communication.
> > It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
> >
> > Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
> >
> > Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
> >
> > 1. Growing community
> > 2. Improving code base.
> >
> > Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> > aware of?
> >
> >
> >
> > How has the community developed since the last report?
> >
> > - We made our first release.
> > - Elected new committer.
> > - Previously private fork (wiab.pro) opened the source code that
> > includes
> > many improvements that can be integrated back into main project.
> > - Also, there's an active development in additional open source fork
> > (swellrt) that potentially allows us to integrate back important
> > features.
> >
> > How has the project developed since the last report?
> >
> > - Replaced the old ANT build system with a new Gradle one.
> > - Fixed a few bugs
> > - Made a few code improvements
> >
> > Date of last release:
> >
> > March 2016
> >
> > When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
> >
> > February 2016
> >
> > Signed-off-by:
> >
> > [ ](wave) Upayavira
> >
> > Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
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Re: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by Upayavira <uv...@odoko.co.uk>.
Regarding Wave, I'm happy to sign off the report, just didn't get time
and got stuck regaining access to my wiki account given slow responses
from Moin. And yes, if Wave continues in the incubator, it really could
do with more mentors.
Upayavira
On Mon, 11 Apr 2016, at 11:56 AM, John D. Ament wrote:
> All,
>
> Below is the final draft of the board report. Remember, mentors have
> until
> tomorrow end of day to sign off on podlings. We have two podlings with
> no
> sign offs - Mnemonic and Wave. Wave is especially concerning since its
> just Upyavira now.
>
> I've extended the months of the non-reporting podlings at this point. I
> would ask that if any of those podlings do create a report between now
> and
> end of day tomorrow, to first reach out on the general@ list to confirm.
> I'd rather a podling miss a report than hurry a report that few people
> can
> review.
>
> - John
> ---------------------------------------------
>
> Incubator PMC report for April 2016
>
> The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
> codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
>
> There are 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We have four
> podlings planning to graduate this month and added five podlings to
> the roster. As is typical in the months following the annual members
> meeting, we have seen a jump in the number of IPMC members join.
>
> * Community
>
> New IPMC members:
>
> - Marvin Humphrey
> - Suneel Marthi
> - Uma Gangumalla
> - Henri Yandell
>
> People who left the IPMC:
>
> - Jukka Zitting
>
> * New Podlings
>
> - Airflow
> - Gearpump
> - Mnemonic
> - Omid
> - Tephra
>
> * Graduations
>
> The board has motions for the following:
>
> - Apex
> - Johnzon
> - TinkerPop
> - AsterixDB
>
> * Releases
>
> The following releases entered distribution during the month of
> March:
>
> 2016-03-02 Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
> 2016-03-03 Apache Apex Malhar 3.3.1-incubating
> 2016-03-03 Apache Htrace 4.1.0-incubating
> 2016-03-04 Apache Mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating
> 2016-03-09 Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating
> 2016-03-10 Apache Ranger 0.5.2-incubating
> 2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-language 0.15.1-incubating
> 2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-osgi 0.2.1-incubating
> 2016-03-14 Apache MADlib v1.9alpha-rc2-incubating
> 2016-03-21 Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating
> 2016-03-25 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating
> 2016-03-27 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-incubating
>
>
> * IP Clearance
>
> - Apache Sling Dynamic Includes
>
> * Legal / Trademarks
>
>
>
> * Infrastructure
>
> We continue to struggle with podling report reminders.
> A suite of manual reminders were sent, some were received
> by the podlings and some were not.
>
> * Miscellaneous
>
> Based on group understanding, it appears that the Concerted podling
> will retire soon.
>
>
>
> * Credits
>
> - Report Manager:
>
> ------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
>
> * Still getting started at the Incubator
>
> - Gearpump
> - iota
> - Joshua
> - Metron
> - Milagro
> - Mnemonic
> - Quarks
>
> * Not yet ready to graduate
>
> No release:
>
> - Hawq
> - Horn
> - Impala
> - Rya
> - Toree
>
> Community growth:
>
> - Fineract
> - Geode
> - MADlib
> - Ranger
> - Wave
>
> * Ready to graduate
>
> The Board has motions for the following:
>
> - Apex
> - Johnzon
> - TinkerPop
> - AsterixDB
>
> * Did not report, expected next month
>
> - Concerted
> - OpenAz
> - Tephra
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Table of Contents
> Apex
> BatchEE
> Concerted
> DataFu
> Fineract
> FreeMarker
> Gearpump
> Geode
> HAWQ
> HORN
> HTrace
> Impala
> iota
> Johnzon
> Joshua
> MADlib
> Metron
> Milagro
> Mnemonic
> Mynewt
> ODF Toolkit
> Quarks
> Ranger
> Rya
> Sirona
> Toree
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> --------------------
> Apex
>
> Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
> unifies stream processing and batch processing.
>
> Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> None. Incubator graduation VOTE passed: https://s.apache.org/qhTf
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> of?
>
> Resolution to establish Apache Apex as TLP submitted to board.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> The community is very engaged with the development of the project. We
> see
> continious uptick in mailing list participaton (2180 messages on dev@
> for
> March, 122+ subscribers).
>
> The community discussed graduation, addressed outstanding issues and
> completed VOTE.
>
> The community has been active building additional meetup groups:
> http://s.apache.org/jKT
> Many presentations and uptick in engagement.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Release 3.3.1-icubating of Malhar on 2016-03-02
>
> Various metrics for March are as follows:
> +---------------------------------------------------+
> | Metric | Core | Malhar |
> +---------------------------------------------------+
> | Non Merge Commits | 52 | 22 |
> | Contributors | 10 | 11 |
> | Jira New Issues | 40 | 31 |
> | Resolved Issues | 43 | 20 |
> | Pull Requests merged | 33 | 12 |
> | Pull Requests proposed | 2 | 11 |
> +---------------------------------------------------+
>
> We are anticipating patch release 3.2.1 in April.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-02 Apex (Malhar) 3.3.1-incubating
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2 PPMC members and 1 committer were added since December.
> PPMC and committer list was updated on the status page.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](apex) Chris Nauroth
> [ ](apex) Alan Gates
> [X](apex) Hitesh Shah
> [X](apex) Justin Mclean
> [ ](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
> [X](apex) Ted Dunning
>
> --------------------
> BatchEE
>
> Apache BatchEE aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
> set of useful extensions for this specification.
>
> BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> The PPMC feels that the project is ready to graduate soon.
>
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Bugfixing continues in BatchEE and we are actively working with the
> JBatch community towards a new JBatch specification
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> BatchEE contributes to the JBatch specification to make the
> project moving forward in the right direction.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-12-08
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-12-11
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
> [ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
> [X](batchee) Mark Struberg
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> It seems that the community posted one report, but then a mentor
> posted
> a largely reworded report. No evidence of a discussion seems to have
> been done on public mailing lists for either report.
>
> --------------------
>
> Concerted
>
> Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data
> engines.
>
> Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14.
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Julian Hyde (jhyde):
>
> No report, despite prodding from Chris, and no activity on lists.
> I think this one's dead.
>
> Jake Farrell (jfarrell):
>
> No activity so far in 2016.
>
> Chris Nauroth (cnauroth):
>
> There has been no activity on the project for several months, and we
> don't see a viable way to salvage it. We are discussing closing it down.
>
> --------------------
> DataFu
>
> DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
> higher
> level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides
> functions
> for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
> sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop
> jobs
> for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
>
> DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Grow user and contributor base
> 2. Increased committer activity
> 3. Continued releases
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * A new contributor opened several JIRAs regarding improvements and
> contributed patches. Two have been committed so far.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Improved instructions on loading projects in Eclipse based on
> discussion
> in JIRA.
> * Added checks in build system to catch issues using wrong JDK version.
> * Some UDFs were improved to be more efficient.
> * A new UDF is pending review.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-11-14
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected
>
> November 2014
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
> [X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
> [X](datafu) Ted Dunning
>
> --------------------
> Fineract
>
> Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
>
> Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Finalising the initial release
> 2. Improve the communication around the differences between the
> previous
> MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the
> MifosX
> community, website etc.
> 3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
> proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
> collaboration within the community.
> 4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
> tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
> consensus.
> 5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of
> traffic
> on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
> and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
> recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
> (see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
> interaction.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a
> great
> meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community
> members
> and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
> interest in Fineract.
>
> We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout
> Africa -
> we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
> collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Individual members of the leading partner organizations building
> solutions
> using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
> issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and
> enhancements
> they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
> setting a good example that other individuals from our partner
> community
> should follow.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> N/A
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> N/A
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
> [ ](fineract) Greg Stein
> [X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> --------------------
> FreeMarker
>
> FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text
> output
> based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library
> for
> programmers.
>
> FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Finding more active contributors
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> There were no changes
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users
> can
> test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and fixes,
> we
> have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
> practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
> (switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
> Java conventions).
>
> The legal/policy issue with the web site domain (INFRA-10787) was
> settled,
> and we are using our historical domain again (freemarker.org) until
> graduation.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-28
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
> [ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
> [ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
> [X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
> [X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
>
> --------------------
> Gearpump
>
> Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the
> micro-service
> Actor model.
>
> Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Make initial Apache branded release
> 2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
> following Apache policies
> 3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
> contributor and end-user friendly.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
> Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
> awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
> import.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
> Apache JIRA accounts.
>
> Discussion among developers has started on
> dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The JIRA for the podling is active at
> https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
> [ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
> [ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
>
> --------------------
> Geode
>
> Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
> access
> to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
> architectures.
>
> Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Rename packages to org.apache
> 2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers
> outside
> of Pivotal.
> 3. Establish a release cadence.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> - We have been able to address the “Three most important issues to move
> towards graduation” from the previous report
> 1. We had our first public release
> 2. We Added 4 new committers, one of which is outside Pivotal
> 3. We are about to have a second release, establishing a regular
> release
> cadence
> - We had a GeodeSummit http://geodesummit.com/
> - 22 sessions (including Keynote)
> - Sessions included current use cases as well as integrations with
> other
> Apache projects
> - Over 100 attendees
> - Received project proposal after the summit.
> - The Geode Clubhouse hosted a meeting covering a walk through the
> different approaches for caching data in a Spring based application
> with
> Apache Geode by Luke Shannon
> - The breakdown of JIRA tickets is the following:
> Q3 / 2015 - 65 created, 19 resolved.
> Q4 / 2015 - 342 created, 227 resolved.
> Q1 / 2016 - 438 created, 362 resolved.
> Q2 / 2016 - 8 created, 12 resolved (As of Apr 4th)
> - There was a total of 123 pull requests on GitHub with 6 still open.
> - The breakdown of the mailing lists messages for January, Feb, March
> of
> 2016:
> org.apache.geode.issues 4300
> org.apache.geode.commits 3731
> org.apache.geode.dev 2154
> org.apache.geode.user 294
> - There are now 153 subscribers on the dev and 145 on the user mailing
> lists.
> - Community events:
> - January 2016:
> - FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels:
> - Taxi trip analysis (DEBS grand-challenge) with Apache Geode
> (incubating)
> - Big Data meets Fast Data: an scalable hybrid real-time
> transactional
> and analytics solution
> - February 2016:
> - Seattle Java User’s Group (Talk about Introduction to Apache
> Geode)
> - March 2016:
> - Geode Summit in Palo Alto, California
> - Geode meetup in Palo Alto
> (http://www.meetup.com/Pivotal-Open-Source-Hub/events/228983898/)
> - Apache Apex (incubating) meetup featuring Geode integration
> (http://www.meetup.com/Apex-Bay-Area-Chapter/events/228593080/)
>
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Had first release, close to the second release (with 134 out of 138
> issues resolved)
> - We elected a release manager for the first release and have rotated
> that
> responsibility for the second release
> - Had a discussion about how to number the releases
> - Voted on the Release candidates, rejected the first but the second
> release candidate was voted as the final release
> - The community discussed the criteria for becoming a committer and
> learned the correct way of nominating new committers.
> - JIRA components were refined after a discussion on the mailing list.
> - Consensus was achieved for the scope for the releases on the mailing
> list.
> - Decision was made not to rename the command line tool on the mailing
> list.
> - Each commit and pull request is run through CI using Travis CI
> - Removed @author tags
> - First release published to maven central
> - Javadocs hosted on the project website.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-02-06
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - Jinmei Liao (2016-01-26)
> - Sai Boorlagadda (2016-02-19)
> - Nitin Lamba (2016-03-08)
> - Dave Barnes (2016-03-30)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
> [ ](geode) Chip Childers
> [ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
> [ ](geode) Jan Iversen
> [ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
> [X](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> --------------------
> HAWQ
>
> Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
> technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
> convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS
> natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear
> scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully
> interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a
> complete,
> standards compliant SQL interface.
>
> HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Produce our first Apache Release
> 2. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on
> making
> sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and
> discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the
> public dev mailing list
> 3. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
> binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least
> installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> of?
>
> Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. One HAWQ Nest community meeting (topic: GPORCA: Query Optimization
> as a
> Service) Video: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest0223yt
> 2. The community shows pretty high activities. In Dev, there have been
> 816
> messages on dev@/user@ in March 2016.
> 3. Got around 29 pull requests from contributors that are not in the
> initial committer team.
> 4. GSoC 2016: 6 topics created for it.
> 5. FOSDEM 2016 event:
> https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/hpc_bigdata_hadoopsql/
>
> https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/postgresql_unified_framework_for_big_data_foreign_data_wrappers/
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Main features/improvements added include:
> a) Hawq-473 Add fault reason and history into hawq catalog
> b) HAWQ-404 Add sort during INSERT of append only row oriented
> partition tables
> c) HAWQ-558 Improve performance of truncate on small tables
> d) HAWQ-532 HAWQ-580 HAWQ-587 Enhance the virtual segment number
> selection method
> e) HAWQ-551 Enhance explain analyze with more information on data
> locality and resource manager
> f) HAWQ-546 Enhance \d for HCatalog tables
> g) HAWQ-144 Support HAWQ build on MAC
> h) HAWQ-597 Add Travis CI(OSX) for MAC
> i) Critical bug fixes.
> 2. 135 new JIRAs filed, 116 resolved (In Mar 2016)
> 3. 134 code commits (In Mar 2016)
>
> Date of last release:
>
> We have not had a release yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new committers/members from initial.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [](hawq) Alan Gates
> [](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
> [](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
> [](hawq) Thejas Nair
> [X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> JM (shepherd): A couple on minor issues around communication on list
> and
> releases but mentors are on top on it.
>
> --------------------
> HORN
>
> HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for
> large-
> scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
>
> HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Increase development velocity
> 2. Make a 0.1 release
> 3. Refocus the direction we want to take this project.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Number of subscribers has increased slightly, development has however
> been
> slow.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have decided that we need to refocus on what we want HORN to look
> like
>
> Date of last release:
>
> XXXX-XX-XX
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> October
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](horn) Luciano Resende
> [ ](horn) Robin Anil
> [x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
>
> --------------------
> HTrace
>
> HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
> written in java.
>
> HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
> 2. Continue to explore projects integratiing HTrace
> 3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * YCSB community are working on integrating HTrace.
> * Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Apache HTrace are being
> planned.
> There are proposals such as
> * distributed tracing for s3 and other alternative Hadoop FS
> * Kudu span receiver
> * integrating HTrace into Hadoop YARN
> * HTrace'ing in Apache Nutch
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * +70 issues were fixed and released as part of 4.1.0-incubating.
> * Improved htraced a lot in Web-UI, robustness, metrics and logging
> * Added Docker support for development
> * Added Documentation for developers
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> * None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](htrace) Jake Farrell
> [ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
> [X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
> [ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
> [X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](htrace) Michael Stack
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> This podling's come pretty far. Maybe time to graduate soon?
>
> --------------------
> Impala
>
> Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data
> stored
> in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
>
> Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Transition of development workflows to ASF (see
> https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221)
> 2. Initial release as incubating project.
> 3. Community growth
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> There have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
> incubation began. We continue to see an uptick in external
> contributions,
> with two patches from new contributors this month. One contributor
> pleasingly reported it was "great to work closely with Impala
> community".
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We have put together a list of tasks required to move development of
> Impala from Cloudera's infrastructure to the ASF. Since Impala was
> already
> a well-established project before the Incubator proposal, there is
> perhaps
> more decoupling required than for more nascent projects. The list is at
> https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221, and is being actively
> worked on. Note that this doesn't cover the standard podling tasks
> (like
> name search, etc).
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None since entering incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> None since entering incubation.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](impala) Tom White
> [ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
> [ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
> [ ](impala) Brock Noland
>
> --------------------
> iota
>
> Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
>
> iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
> happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted
> to
> upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than
> upload
> an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
> developing a new backend architecture and code based that implements
> a
> significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
> Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for
> our
> APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
> haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository.
> This
> will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose
> business
> runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the
> backend
> using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
> scalable.
> 2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache
> iota
> website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
> source code as quickly as we can.
> 3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are
> planning
> to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott
> Noteboom
> (Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache Con
> in
> May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
> community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release
> as
> an Apache incubator project
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * None at this time.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * This is the first submitted report
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * This is the first submitted report
>
> Date of last release:
>
> * None
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
> [X](iota) Justin Mclean
> [X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
> non-ASF way.
> Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be better to
> start
> off
> writing new code in the ASF repos.
>
> jmclean:
> I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
> I've
> contacted them a few times with a please explain and have assurances
> that
> this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling on monthly
> reports
> for a
> few more months.
>
> drew:
> 2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity
> as
> the
> team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping podling on
> monthly
> reports.
>
> --------------------
> Johnzon
>
> Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
>
> Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Currently graduation, so nothing but issues necessary for graduation
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> * Currently graduating to a TPL
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
> from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 20 msgs (on
> average) messages per month.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> The project did its 10th incubator release. During the last three
> month 9
> jira issues were reported and 6 of them fixed. Project has also
> started
> to implement the upcoming JSR-374 and JSR-367 specification. The
> project
> has also voted for a logo.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-FEB-17 (0.9.3-incubating)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, last PMC member was elected
> 2015-04-09 (Hendrik Saly)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
> [ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> johndament:
> Podling is planning to graduate, but sign off received from only one
> mentor.
>
> --------------------
> Joshua
>
> Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
>
> Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure
> (nearly
> complete)
> 2. Building up community and attracting developers
> 3. Putting out regular Joshua releases
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and
> things are proceeding nicely.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been
> extended to them.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due
> to
> caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-11-05 (prior to incubation)
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> - Felix Hieber (2016-04-01)
> - Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01)
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
> [X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
> [ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
> [ ](joshua) Tom Barber
> [ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
>
> --------------------
>
> MADlib
>
> Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
>
> MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
> 2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
> contributors.
> 3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model
> required
> by the "Apache Way”.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Held three community calls in Q1 2016. Each call featured a
> different
> member of the Apache MADlib community presenting on a topic of
> interest
> to them:
> * Jan 15th - Bayesian Analysis of Binomial Response Models on MPP
> Databases (Gautam Muralidhar)
> * Feb 16th - An Overview of GWR Analysis of Spatial Data (Chenliang
> Wang)
> * Mar 16th - MADlib on PostgreSQL and PGXN (AJ Welch)
> 2. One new committer has been added to the project (Xiaocheng Tang)
> 3. Presentation of Apache MADlib at FOSDEM’16 in Brussels (Frank
> McQuillan)
> 4. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
> appropriate JIRAs (e.g., 111 emails on dev@ mailing list in Feb)
> 5. Several Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidates have expressed
> interest
> in working on MADlib projects via dev@ mailing list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. 1st ASF release MADlib v1.9alpha on 3/11/16 which was intended to
> clear
> all potential IP issues in the code base and make it legally ready
> to
> be adopted by the community.
> 2. 2nd ASF release MADlib v1.9 is currently in IPMC voting as of this
> writing on 4/6/16. The goal of this 2nd release is general
> availability of MADlib v1.9 for community use.
> 3. Some features in the latest release: path functions, support vector
> machines, advanced matrix operations, covariance matrix, proportion
> of
> variance for PCA, support for Apache HAWQ (incubating) 2.0.
> 4. 15 JIRAs created and 27 resolved in last 30 days.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Apache MADlib (incubating) v1.9alpha on 3/11/16.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Xiaocheng Tang on 1/14/16.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
> [X](madlib) Ted Dunning
> [X](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
>
> --------------------
> Metron
>
> Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order
> to
> offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
> provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
> storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while
> applying
> the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
> within a single platform.
>
> Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards
> Graduation.
>
> - Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
> - Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
> - Make an Apache release
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to
> be aware of
>
> - We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
>
> * How has the community developed since the last report
>
> - We added one additional committer, David Lyle
> - We accepted 2 separate contributions from non-committers interested
> in Metron
> - We saw an uptick in interest from the community on the dev boards
> which
> corresponds to people trying the product prior to an official
> release,
> which is a good sign.
>
> * How has the project developed since the last report
>
> - We closed 20 more Jiras and are in the latest stages of releasing an
> Apache release.
> - We added deployment automation for EC2 so trying out Metron in a
> multi-node environment is even easier
> - We integrated the CI environment that infra set up for us at our
> request
> so that unit tests and apache rat license checks are run on every
> pull
> request submitted
> - We added support for indexing enriched sensor capture data into
> Apache
> Solr indexing as well as Elasticsearch
>
> Date of last release:
>
> --
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> David Lyle on 22 March 2016
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
> [ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
> [X](metron) Owen O'Malley
> [ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
> [ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
>
> --------------------
> Milagro
>
> Distributed Cryptography;
> M-Pin and other pairing protocols for Identity and Trust
>
> Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Import the software: The source code is already prepared and placed
> in
> repositories on GitHub – soon to be imported to Apache repositories.
> This includes a full Milagro MFA implementation.
> 2. Awareness among developers: Milagro announcement – during ApacheCon
> North America – May 2016
> 3. General Awareness
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> n/a
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No substantial developments to report. The project is targeting
> community
> development following Apachecon presentations.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Project members are preparing to present the project at ApacheCon with
> a
> view to connecting with the wider Apache community and finding
> synergies
> with other projects.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> n/a
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> February, as reported.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
> [ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
> [x](milagro) Nick Kew
>
> --------------------
> Mnemonic
>
> Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place
> structured
> data processing and computing.
>
> Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
> Mnemonic code was moved into ASF on 3/24
>
> Various metrics for March are as follows:
>
> +--------------------------------------------+
> | Metric | counts |
> +--------------------------------------------+
> | Non Merge Commits | 82 |
> | Contributors | 10 |
> | Jira New Issues | 13 |
> | Resolved Issues | 4 |
> | Pull Requests merged | 8 |
> | Pull Requests proposed | 8 |
> +--------------------------------------------+
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Apache releases: we are preparing 0.1.0 release
> 2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions,
> adding new contributors
> 3. Develop new features
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Everything is on track, nothing urgent at this time.
>
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> The project is in early stage in setting up the infra. In addition to
> contributors listed in Mnemonic proposal, we had one new contributor
> joined us. We are actively discuss with Arrow community in dev list for
> the idea on integration. Apache Arrow community is very interested in
> Mnemonic integration for extending Arrow into persistent memory and
> storage.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> We ported source code in Apache on 3/24 after SGA was filed on 3/23. We
> are doing several refactorings and defining coding guidelines to fit
> Apache project standard.
>
> We are working on enabling Apache Arrow to use Mnemonic as underlying
> pooling mechanism.
>
> We are designing the native computing infrastructure, built native
> computing interface code.
>
> Bug tracking JIRA setup was done, 13 issues were filed. 4 issues were
> solved.
>
> Mailing list discussions are happening actively related to
> infrastructure,
> code standard, features for the project.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> No release yet, working on 0.1.0 release
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No election, since the project is just starting. As part of incubation
> process, initial committers and contributors were proposed and added.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
> [ ](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
> [ ](mnemonic) James Taylor
> [ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
>
>
> --------------------
> Mynewt
>
> Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems
> like
> wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of
> 32-bit
> MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
>
> Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Make further releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS image
> with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity. Do
> subsequent releases to indicate thorough understanding,
> repeatability,
> and maturity of process.
> 2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project
> contributors to achieve self-governance
> 3. Expand community - attract new project contributors and users, grow
> committer base
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Healthy, active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers
> 2. Continual outside interest by 3rd parties. Outreach via conferences,
> exhibits, one on one meetings, beta testers, GSoC participation.
> 3. Vigorous discussions and implementation decisions via proposals and
> voting on @dev mailing list.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Releases: Two releases so far - first on 22nd Feb, next on 18th
> March
> - Identified and fixed license issues, regular process established
> to
> check for license issues esp. with third party software
> - Tagging process and release candidate naming process tested and
> used
> - Voting process and timelines established and used
> 2. Documentation support: Several committers added documentation either
> through direct git pushes or pull requests on github mirror.
> 3. Effort towards self governance:
> - Two releases completed successfully.
> - Two committer candidates going through voting for committer status
> after meeting threshold of patch submissions.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2016-03-18
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> At the start
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
> [X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
> [X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
> [ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
> [ ](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
>
> --------------------
> ODF Toolkit
>
> Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation
> of
> OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
>
> ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Attract more developers
> 2. Have frequent releases
> 3. Decide on possible ways to graduate
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Not many developers are active currently.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> Several patches have been added to JIRA by community members. Issues
> have
> been reported.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Several patches have been applied, a new release is planned.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2014-06-02
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 2012-10-29
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
> [X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
> [ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> Hopefully the new release will generate a little more interest. I'd
> suggest we wait a few more months to see the effect of that, before
> deciding on what to do with the podling (staying in the incubator for
> ever
> isn't an option!)
>
> --------------------
> Quarks
>
> Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that
> can
> be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local,
> real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
> equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all
> kinds
> (for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
> centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely
> analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
>
> Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
> around Quarks project
> 2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks
> 3. Complete migration of website to host all content at Apache (javadoc
> is
> still on Github).
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> Nothing jumps to mind.
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the
> mailing
> list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of
> independent
> contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of
> independent
> contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project
> and
> we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * The project has successfully migrated from Github-based development
> to
> using the Apache git repo, Jira, and the mailing lists.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No changes from the initial committers.
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner
> [ ](quarks) Luciano Resende
> [X](quarks) Katherine Marsden
> [X](quarks) Justin Mclean
>
> --------------------
> Ranger
>
> The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
> comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
>
> Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
> 2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users
> and
> contributors.
> 3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> None
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Added new contributors:
> (Bolke de Bruin,Deepak Sharma,Colm O hEigeartaigh,Tushar
> Dudhatra,mugdha.varadkar,pradeep.agrawal,mehul,ankita.sinha)
> Total Contributor Count: 23
> 2. Mailing list activity since last report (Dec-01-2015 to
> Mar-31-2016):
> @dev 1534
> @user 153
> @commit 345
> 3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Dec-01-2015
> before Mar-31-2016):
> Created: 153
> Resolved: 140
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Released two minor releases :
> 0.5.1 release on 01/26/2016
> 0.5.2 release on 02/29/2016
> 2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
> a. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache
> Ranger
> KMS.
> b. Working to provide both Column-level-masking and
> Row-level-filtering
> support for data security
> c. Working to add Tag-Based authorization policies
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Feb-29-2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> 1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](ranger) Alan Gates
> [ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
> [ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
> [ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
> [X](ranger) Owen O'Malley
>
> --------------------
> Rya
>
> Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
> supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system
> built
> on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
> query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
> multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
> SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
>
> Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
> part of the Apache Foundation
> 2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors
> can
> become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the
> community.
> 3. Add new committers to the project.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware
> of?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> * We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
> some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a
> working
> solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask
> questions,
> receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes
> are
> sent to the dev@ list.
> * We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
> repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
> submit PRs and become committers.
> * There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a
> few
> students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> * Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
> * Created a website for the project.
> * Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
> * Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices,
> extensions to query planning to support more complex precomputed join
> indices, free text search support for MongoDB, additional Geo
> indexing
> for MongoDB, extensions of examples for both Accumulo and MongoDB
> backed
> Rya
>
>
> Date of last release:
>
> Not applicable
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> Not applicable
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [x](rya) Josh Elser
> [x](rya) Edward J. Yoon
> [x](rya) Sean Busbey
> [x](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
>
> sb: project activity was a little slow, due to other time commitments for
> the dev community, but folks had a great discussion around next steps
> when it came time for a draft report.
>
> --------------------
> Sirona
>
> Monitoring Solution.
>
> Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. increase the community
> 2. do more releases
> 3. make the community more active
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> No
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> No change but some more user feedbacks.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
>
> Date of last release:
>
> 2015-11-18
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
>
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
> [ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
> [ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
> [ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
> [ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
> [X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
>
> --------------------
> Toree
>
> Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and
> remotely
> access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between
> applications
> and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the
> user
> with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
> Python, R or SQL.
>
> Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
> have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
> with AL2.
> 2. Make a release: nearing completion
> 3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
> community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three
> independent
> contributors)
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
> TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> 1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
> 2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
> Toree.
> 3. First external contribution made by user @dongjoon-hyun
> 4. Apache Toree was featured at SF Data Science meetup
> https://github.com/asimjalis/apache-toree-quickstart
>
> Date of last release:
>
> None since incubation.
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> No new additions since incubation
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](toree) Luciano Resende
> [ ](toree) Reynold Xin
> [X](toree) Hitesh Shah
> [ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
>
> --------------------
> Wave
>
> A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich
> communication.
> It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
>
> Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
>
> Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
>
> 1. Growing community
> 2. Improving code base.
>
> Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
> aware of?
>
>
>
> How has the community developed since the last report?
>
> - We made our first release.
> - Elected new committer.
> - Previously private fork (wiab.pro) opened the source code that
> includes
> many improvements that can be integrated back into main project.
> - Also, there's an active development in additional open source fork
> (swellrt) that potentially allows us to integrate back important
> features.
>
> How has the project developed since the last report?
>
> - Replaced the old ANT build system with a new Gradle one.
> - Fixed a few bugs
> - Made a few code improvements
>
> Date of last release:
>
> March 2016
>
> When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
>
> February 2016
>
> Signed-off-by:
>
> [ ](wave) Upayavira
>
> Shepherd/Mentor notes:
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Fwd: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
Posted by Myrle Krantz <mk...@mifos.org>.
Hi Fineract Mentors,
Is it normal that only one mentor signs off on an incubator's report? Or do
I need to worry that there was something wrong with the report to cause
Greg and Ross to choose not to sign off on it? If the latter is the case,
please share your feedback.
Greets from the Voreifel, Germany,
Myrle
*Myrle Krantz*
Solutions Architect
RɅĐɅЯ, The Mifos Initiative
mkrantz@mifos.org | Skype: mkrantz.mifos.org | http://mifos.org
<http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
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From: John D. Ament <jo...@apache.org>
Date: Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 12:56 PM
Subject: Final draft of the Incubator Board Report - April 2016
To: "general@incubator.apache.org" <ge...@incubator.apache.org>
All,
Below is the final draft of the board report. Remember, mentors have until
tomorrow end of day to sign off on podlings. We have two podlings with no
sign offs - Mnemonic and Wave. Wave is especially concerning since its
just Upyavira now.
I've extended the months of the non-reporting podlings at this point. I
would ask that if any of those podlings do create a report between now and
end of day tomorrow, to first reach out on the general@ list to confirm.
I'd rather a podling miss a report than hurry a report that few people can
review.
- John
---------------------------------------------
Incubator PMC report for April 2016
The Apache Incubator is the entry path into the ASF for projects and
codebases wishing to become part of the Foundation's efforts.
There are 56 podlings currently undergoing incubation. We have four
podlings planning to graduate this month and added five podlings to
the roster. As is typical in the months following the annual members
meeting, we have seen a jump in the number of IPMC members join.
* Community
New IPMC members:
- Marvin Humphrey
- Suneel Marthi
- Uma Gangumalla
- Henri Yandell
People who left the IPMC:
- Jukka Zitting
* New Podlings
- Airflow
- Gearpump
- Mnemonic
- Omid
- Tephra
* Graduations
The board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
- TinkerPop
- AsterixDB
* Releases
The following releases entered distribution during the month of
March:
2016-03-02 Apache MRQL 0.9.6-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Apex Malhar 3.3.1-incubating
2016-03-03 Apache Htrace 4.1.0-incubating
2016-03-04 Apache Mynewt-0.8.0-b1-incubating
2016-03-09 Apache Kudu 0.7.1-incubating
2016-03-10 Apache Ranger 0.5.2-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-language 0.15.1-incubating
2016-03-11 Apache Taverna-osgi 0.2.1-incubating
2016-03-14 Apache MADlib v1.9alpha-rc2-incubating
2016-03-21 Apache Unomi 1.0.0-incubating
2016-03-25 Apache Mynewt 0.8.0-b2-incubating
2016-03-27 Apache FreeMarker 2.3.24-incubating
* IP Clearance
- Apache Sling Dynamic Includes
* Legal / Trademarks
* Infrastructure
We continue to struggle with podling report reminders.
A suite of manual reminders were sent, some were received
by the podlings and some were not.
* Miscellaneous
Based on group understanding, it appears that the Concerted podling
will retire soon.
* Credits
- Report Manager:
------------------- Summary of podling reports --------------------
* Still getting started at the Incubator
- Gearpump
- iota
- Joshua
- Metron
- Milagro
- Mnemonic
- Quarks
* Not yet ready to graduate
No release:
- Hawq
- Horn
- Impala
- Rya
- Toree
Community growth:
- Fineract
- Geode
- MADlib
- Ranger
- Wave
* Ready to graduate
The Board has motions for the following:
- Apex
- Johnzon
- TinkerPop
- AsterixDB
* Did not report, expected next month
- Concerted
- OpenAz
- Tephra
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Table of Contents
Apex
BatchEE
Concerted
DataFu
Fineract
FreeMarker
Gearpump
Geode
HAWQ
HORN
HTrace
Impala
iota
Johnzon
Joshua
MADlib
Metron
Milagro
Mnemonic
Mynewt
ODF Toolkit
Quarks
Ranger
Rya
Sirona
Toree
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--------------------
Apex
Apex is an enterprise grade native YARN big data-in-motion platform that
unifies stream processing and batch processing.
Apex has been incubating since 2015-08-17.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
None. Incubator graduation VOTE passed: https://s.apache.org/qhTf
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Resolution to establish Apache Apex as TLP submitted to board.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The community is very engaged with the development of the project. We see
continious uptick in mailing list participaton (2180 messages on dev@ for
March, 122+ subscribers).
The community discussed graduation, addressed outstanding issues and
completed VOTE.
The community has been active building additional meetup groups:
http://s.apache.org/jKT
Many presentations and uptick in engagement.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Release 3.3.1-icubating of Malhar on 2016-03-02
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Metric | Core | Malhar |
+---------------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 52 | 22 |
| Contributors | 10 | 11 |
| Jira New Issues | 40 | 31 |
| Resolved Issues | 43 | 20 |
| Pull Requests merged | 33 | 12 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 2 | 11 |
+---------------------------------------------------+
We are anticipating patch release 3.2.1 in April.
Date of last release:
2016-03-02 Apex (Malhar) 3.3.1-incubating
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2 PPMC members and 1 committer were added since December.
PPMC and committer list was updated on the status page.
Signed-off-by:
[X](apex) Chris Nauroth
[ ](apex) Alan Gates
[X](apex) Hitesh Shah
[X](apex) Justin Mclean
[ ](apex) P. Taylor Goetz
[X](apex) Ted Dunning
--------------------
BatchEE
Apache BatchEE aims to provide a JBatch implementation (aka JSR352) and a
set of useful extensions for this specification.
BatchEE has been incubating since 2013-10-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
The PPMC feels that the project is ready to graduate soon.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
Bugfixing continues in BatchEE and we are actively working with the
JBatch community towards a new JBatch specification
How has the project developed since the last report?
BatchEE contributes to the JBatch specification to make the
project moving forward in the right direction.
Date of last release:
2015-12-08
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-12-11
Signed-off-by:
[ ](batchee) Jean-Baptiste Onofré
[ ](batchee) Olivier Lamy
[X](batchee) Mark Struberg
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
It seems that the community posted one report, but then a mentor posted
a largely reworded report. No evidence of a discussion seems to have
been done on public mailing lists for either report.
--------------------
Concerted
Apache Concerted is a Do-It-Yourself toolkit for building in-memory data
engines.
Concerted has been incubating since 2015-10-14.
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Julian Hyde (jhyde):
No report, despite prodding from Chris, and no activity on lists.
I think this one's dead.
Jake Farrell (jfarrell):
No activity so far in 2016.
Chris Nauroth (cnauroth):
There has been no activity on the project for several months, and we
don't see a viable way to salvage it. We are discussing closing it down.
--------------------
DataFu
DataFu provides a collection of Hadoop MapReduce jobs and functions in
higher
level languages based on it to perform data analysis. It provides functions
for common statistics tasks (e.g. quantiles, sampling), PageRank, stream
sessionization, and set and bag operations. DataFu also provides Hadoop jobs
for incremental data processing in MapReduce.
DataFu has been incubating since 2014-01-05.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Grow user and contributor base
2. Increased committer activity
3. Continued releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* A new contributor opened several JIRAs regarding improvements and
contributed patches. Two have been committed so far.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Improved instructions on loading projects in Eclipse based on discussion
in JIRA.
* Added checks in build system to catch issues using wrong JDK version.
* Some UDFs were improved to be more efficient.
* A new UDF is pending review.
Date of last release:
2015-11-14
When were the last committers or PMC members elected
November 2014
Signed-off-by:
[ ](datafu) Ashutosh Chauhan
[X](datafu) Roman Shaposhnik
[X](datafu) Ted Dunning
--------------------
Fineract
Fineract is an open source system for core banking as a platform.
Fineract has been incubating since 2015-12-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finalising the initial release
2. Improve the communication around the differences between the previous
MifosX project and the new Fineract project, especially in the MifosX
community, website etc.
3. With the first initial release, encourage the community to use the
proper infastructure (mailing lists, issue tracker) for the ongoing
collaboration within the community.
4. Change management towards less 'key-man' dependency on previous
tech/community leaders from MifosX, more towards community driven
consensus.
5. Reduce clutter on mailinglist from JIRA updates etc.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
On the mailinglist there have been discussions around the lack of traffic
on it. This is part of the switchover from the current MifosX community
and mailinglists towards the new Fineract lists. At the same time the
recent meet-up of Mifosx and Fineract devs and people interested in it
(see community development), has also triggered a lot of offline
interaction.
How has the community developed since the last report?
While activity on the mailinglist has been pretty low, we've had a great
meet-up in Amsterdam where a nice mix of existing MifosX community members
and a group of new interested people was present. This has boosted
interest in Fineract.
We have a high level of interest from new contributors throughout Africa -
we are working to properly engage them and guide them to the correct
collaboration channels in our Fineract community.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Individual members of the leading partner organizations building solutions
using the Fineract platform have begun to effectively use the Fineract
issue tracker to communicate and track the requirements and enhancements
they're building and contributing to Fineract. These individuals are
setting a good example that other individuals from our partner community
should follow.
Date of last release:
N/A
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
N/A
Signed-off-by:
[ ](fineract) Ross Gardler
[ ](fineract) Greg Stein
[X](fineract) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
FreeMarker
FreeMarker is a template engine, i.e. a generic tool to generate text output
based on templates. FreeMarker is implemented in Java as a class library for
programmers.
FreeMarker has been incubating since 2015-07-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Finding more active contributors
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
There were no changes
How has the project developed since the last report?
FreeMarker had two public releases: A Release Candidate (so that users can
test it), and one final release. Apart from the new features and fixes, we
have adjusted the source code and build process to follow Apache best
practices more closely, and to be more appealing for contributors
(switching to Java 5, fixing formatting where it didn't fit the modern
Java conventions).
The legal/policy issue with the web site domain (INFRA-10787) was settled,
and we are using our historical domain again (freemarker.org) until
graduation.
Date of last release:
2016-03-28
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2015-10-21 Nan Lei, committer (non-PMC)
Signed-off-by:
[X](freemarker) Jacopo Cappellato
[ ](freemarker) Jean-Frederic Clere
[ ](freemarker) David E. Jones
[X](freemarker) Ralph Goers
[X](freemarker) Sergio Fernández
--------------------
Gearpump
Gearpump is a reactive real-time streaming engine based on the micro-service
Actor model.
Gearpump has been incubating since 2016-03-08.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make initial Apache branded release
2. Initial community process definition and practice enforcement by
following Apache policies
3. Build the first Apache branded informative website to make Gearpump
contributor and end-user friendly.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
The rights holder of the Gearpump copyright filed a CCLA including a
Schedule B granting the Gearpump codebase to the Foundation. We are
awaiting assistance from Infrastructure on INFRA-11435 to perform the
import.
How has the community developed since the last report?
All of the initial committers/PPMC have set up with Apache accounts and
Apache JIRA accounts.
Discussion among developers has started on
dev@gearpump.incubator.apache.org
How has the project developed since the last report?
The JIRA for the podling is active at
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GEARPUMP and seeing activity.
Date of last release:
No release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers or PMC members elected yet.
Signed-off-by:
[X](gearpump) Andrew Purtell
[ ](gearpump) Jarek Jarcec Cecho
[ ](gearpump) Reynold Xin
[ ](gearpump) Todd Lipcon
[ ](gearpump) Xuefu Zhang
--------------------
Geode
Geode is a data management platform that provides real-time, consistent
access
to data-intensive applications throughout widely distributed cloud
architectures.
Geode has been incubating since 2015-04-27.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Rename packages to org.apache
2. Expanding the community to include contributors and committers outside
of Pivotal.
3. Establish a release cadence.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We have been able to address the “Three most important issues to move
towards graduation” from the previous report
1. We had our first public release
2. We Added 4 new committers, one of which is outside Pivotal
3. We are about to have a second release, establishing a regular release
cadence
- We had a GeodeSummit http://geodesummit.com/
- 22 sessions (including Keynote)
- Sessions included current use cases as well as integrations with other
Apache projects
- Over 100 attendees
- Received project proposal after the summit.
- The Geode Clubhouse hosted a meeting covering a walk through the
different approaches for caching data in a Spring based application with
Apache Geode by Luke Shannon
- The breakdown of JIRA tickets is the following:
Q3 / 2015 - 65 created, 19 resolved.
Q4 / 2015 - 342 created, 227 resolved.
Q1 / 2016 - 438 created, 362 resolved.
Q2 / 2016 - 8 created, 12 resolved (As of Apr 4th)
- There was a total of 123 pull requests on GitHub with 6 still open.
- The breakdown of the mailing lists messages for January, Feb, March of
2016:
org.apache.geode.issues 4300
org.apache.geode.commits 3731
org.apache.geode.dev 2154
org.apache.geode.user 294
- There are now 153 subscribers on the dev and 145 on the user mailing
lists.
- Community events:
- January 2016:
- FOSDEM 2016 in Brussels:
- Taxi trip analysis (DEBS grand-challenge) with Apache Geode
(incubating)
- Big Data meets Fast Data: an scalable hybrid real-time transactional
and analytics solution
- February 2016:
- Seattle Java User’s Group (Talk about Introduction to Apache Geode)
- March 2016:
- Geode Summit in Palo Alto, California
- Geode meetup in Palo Alto
(http://www.meetup.com/Pivotal-Open-Source-Hub/events/228983898/)
- Apache Apex (incubating) meetup featuring Geode integration
(http://www.meetup.com/Apex-Bay-Area-Chapter/events/228593080/)
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Had first release, close to the second release (with 134 out of 138
issues resolved)
- We elected a release manager for the first release and have rotated that
responsibility for the second release
- Had a discussion about how to number the releases
- Voted on the Release candidates, rejected the first but the second
release candidate was voted as the final release
- The community discussed the criteria for becoming a committer and
learned the correct way of nominating new committers.
- JIRA components were refined after a discussion on the mailing list.
- Consensus was achieved for the scope for the releases on the mailing
list.
- Decision was made not to rename the command line tool on the mailing
list.
- Each commit and pull request is run through CI using Travis CI
- Removed @author tags
- First release published to maven central
- Javadocs hosted on the project website.
Date of last release:
2016-02-06
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Jinmei Liao (2016-01-26)
- Sai Boorlagadda (2016-02-19)
- Nitin Lamba (2016-03-08)
- Dave Barnes (2016-03-30)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](geode) Konstantin Boudnik
[ ](geode) Chip Childers
[ ](geode) Justin Erenkrantz
[ ](geode) Jan Iversen
[ ](geode) Chris Mattmann
[ ](geode) William A. Rowe Jr.
[X](geode) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
HAWQ
Apache HAWQ is a Hadoop native SQL query engine that combines the key
technological advantages of MPP database with the scalability and
convenience of Hadoop. HAWQ reads data from and writes data to HDFS
natively. HAWQ delivers industry-leading performance and linear
scalability. It provides users the tools to confidently and successfully
interact with petabyte range data sets. HAWQ provides users with a complete,
standards compliant SQL interface.
HAWQ has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Produce our first Apache Release
2. Expand the community, by adding new contributors and focusing on making
sure that there's a much more robust level of conversations and
discussions happening around roadmaps and feature development on the
public dev mailing list
3. Infrastructure migration: create Jenkins projects that build HAWQ
binary, source tarballs, and run feature tests including at least
installcheck-good tests for each commit (HAWQ-127).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
Everything seems to be smooth, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. One HAWQ Nest community meeting (topic: GPORCA: Query Optimization as a
Service) Video: http://bit.ly/HAWQNest0223yt
2. The community shows pretty high activities. In Dev, there have been 816
messages on dev@/user@ in March 2016.
3. Got around 29 pull requests from contributors that are not in the
initial committer team.
4. GSoC 2016: 6 topics created for it.
5. FOSDEM 2016 event:
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/hpc_bigdata_hadoopsql/
https://fosdem.org/2016/schedule/event/postgresql_unified_framework_for_big_data_foreign_data_wrappers/
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Main features/improvements added include:
a) Hawq-473 Add fault reason and history into hawq catalog
b) HAWQ-404 Add sort during INSERT of append only row oriented
partition tables
c) HAWQ-558 Improve performance of truncate on small tables
d) HAWQ-532 HAWQ-580 HAWQ-587 Enhance the virtual segment number
selection method
e) HAWQ-551 Enhance explain analyze with more information on data
locality and resource manager
f) HAWQ-546 Enhance \d for HCatalog tables
g) HAWQ-144 Support HAWQ build on MAC
h) HAWQ-597 Add Travis CI(OSX) for MAC
i) Critical bug fixes.
2. 135 new JIRAs filed, 116 resolved (In Mar 2016)
3. 134 code commits (In Mar 2016)
Date of last release:
We have not had a release yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new committers/members from initial.
Signed-off-by:
[](hawq) Alan Gates
[](hawq) Konstantin Boudnik
[](hawq) Justin Erenkrantz
[](hawq) Thejas Nair
[X](hawq) Roman Shaposhnik
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
JM (shepherd): A couple on minor issues around communication on list and
releases but mentors are on top on it.
--------------------
HORN
HORN is a neuron-centric programming APIs and execution framework for large-
scale deep learning, built on top of Apache Hama.
HORN has been incubating since 2015-09-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase development velocity
2. Make a 0.1 release
3. Refocus the direction we want to take this project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
Number of subscribers has increased slightly, development has however been
slow.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have decided that we need to refocus on what we want HORN to look like
Date of last release:
XXXX-XX-XX
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
October
Signed-off-by:
[ ](horn) Luciano Resende
[ ](horn) Robin Anil
[x](horn) Edward J. Yoon
--------------------
HTrace
HTrace is a tracing framework intended for use with distributed systems
written in java.
HTrace has been incubating since 2014-11-11.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to grow the HTrace community
2. Continue to explore projects integratiing HTrace
3. Continue to develop and release stable HTrace incubating artifacts
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
* YCSB community are working on integrating HTrace.
* Google Summer of Code 2016 projects for Apache HTrace are being planned.
There are proposals such as
* distributed tracing for s3 and other alternative Hadoop FS
* Kudu span receiver
* integrating HTrace into Hadoop YARN
* HTrace'ing in Apache Nutch
How has the project developed since the last report?
* +70 issues were fixed and released as part of 4.1.0-incubating.
* Improved htraced a lot in Web-UI, robustness, metrics and logging
* Added Docker support for development
* Added Documentation for developers
Date of last release:
* htrace-4.1.0-incubating on March 5th, 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
* None this period. Last added committer: Abraham Elmahrek - 2.11.15
Signed-off-by:
[X](htrace) Jake Farrell
[ ](htrace) Todd Lipcon
[X](htrace) Lewis John Mcgibbney
[ ](htrace) Andrew Purtell
[X](htrace) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](htrace) Michael Stack
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
This podling's come pretty far. Maybe time to graduate soon?
--------------------
Impala
Impala is a high-performance C++ and Java SQL query engine for data stored
in Apache Hadoop-based clusters.
Impala has been incubating since 2015-12-03.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Transition of development workflows to ASF (see
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221)
2. Initial release as incubating project.
3. Community growth
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None.
How has the community developed since the last report?
There have been no additions to the committer or PMC lists since
incubation began. We continue to see an uptick in external contributions,
with two patches from new contributors this month. One contributor
pleasingly reported it was "great to work closely with Impala community".
How has the project developed since the last report?
We have put together a list of tasks required to move development of
Impala from Cloudera's infrastructure to the ASF. Since Impala was already
a well-established project before the Incubator proposal, there is perhaps
more decoupling required than for more nascent projects. The list is at
https://issues.cloudera.org/browse/IMPALA-3221, and is being actively
worked on. Note that this doesn't cover the standard podling tasks (like
name search, etc).
Date of last release:
None since entering incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
None since entering incubation.
Signed-off-by:
[X](impala) Tom White
[ ](impala) Todd Lipcon
[ ](impala) Carl Steinbach
[ ](impala) Brock Noland
--------------------
iota
Open source system that enables the orchestration of IoT devices.
iota has been incubating since 2016-01-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Overcome current technical difficulties. You might be asking what is
happening with Apache iota. The initial architecture that we wanted to
upload was not as scalable as we required it to be. Rather than upload
an architecture that we wanted to fundamentally change we have been
developing a new backend architecture and code based that implements a
significantly more scalable solution using Apache, Spark, Spark
Streaming and Cassandra. We are still using Python and Django for our
APIs and authentication (session and token based). Consequently, you
haven’t seen any activity on the Apache iota site and repository. This
will be changing soon. Litbit (the contributing company whose business
runs on iota) has been working around the clock to remake the backend
using additional Apache components that makes the solution far more
scalable.
2. Set up web site and import code. We will be setting up the Apache iota
website to reflect the new architecture and uploading the initial
source code as quickly as we can.
3. Promote Iota to a wider user base / grow the community. We are planning
to promoting iota at an upcoming keynote being given by Scott Noteboom
(Litbit's CEO). In addition we will be presenting iota at Apache Con in
May 2016. Our goal in promoting iota will be to start building a
community that will contribute to moving iota to it’s first release as
an Apache incubator project
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* None at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
* This is the first submitted report
How has the project developed since the last report?
* This is the first submitted report
Date of last release:
* None
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[ ](iota) Daniel Gruno
[ ](iota) Sterling Hughes
[X](iota) Justin Mclean
[X](iota) Hadrian Zbarcea
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
Its a bit concerning to see that the project is starting off in a
non-ASF way.
Even if the code isn't quite right for donation, may be better to start
off
writing new code in the ASF repos.
jmclean:
I too have concerns about why they are developing outside of the ASF.
I've
contacted them a few times with a please explain and have assurances
that
this will be fixed. I'd suggest placing the podling on monthly reports
for a
few more months.
drew:
2 mentors active on the mailing list this month, but little activity as
the
team has not moved development to ASF. Concur with keeping podling on
monthly
reports.
--------------------
Johnzon
Implementation of JSR-353 JavaTM API for JSON Processing.
Johnzon has been incubating since 2014-06-09.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Currently graduation, so nothing but issues necessary for graduation
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
* Currently graduating to a TPL
How has the community developed since the last report?
There are new people on the dev list and the project got contributions
from non-committers. On the dev list there are approx. 20 msgs (on
average) messages per month.
How has the project developed since the last report?
The project did its 10th incubator release. During the last three month 9
jira issues were reported and 6 of them fixed. Project has also started
to implement the upcoming JSR-374 and JSR-367 specification. The project
has also voted for a logo.
Date of last release:
2016-FEB-17 (0.9.3-incubating)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Last committer was elected 2014-08-23, last PMC member was elected
2015-04-09 (Hendrik Saly)
Signed-off-by:
[X](johnzon) Justin Mclean
[ ](johnzon) Daniel Kulp
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
johndament:
Podling is planning to graduate, but sign off received from only one
mentor.
--------------------
Joshua
Joshua is a statistical machine translation toolkit
Joshua has been incubating since 2016-02-13.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Migration of the entire project over to Apache infrastructure (nearly
complete)
2. Building up community and attracting developers
3. Putting out regular Joshua releases
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None that come to mind. We are occupied with the issues above, and
things are proceeding nicely.
How has the community developed since the last report?
We have voted in two new committers and invitations have been
extended to them.
How has the project developed since the last report?
A large pull request was accepted reporting large speed increases due to
caching, and increasing the usability of Joshua as a library.
Date of last release:
2015-11-05 (prior to incubation)
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
- Felix Hieber (2016-04-01)
- Kellen Sunderland (2016-04-01)
Signed-off-by:
[ ](joshua) Paul Ramirez
[X](joshua) Lewis John McGibbney
[ ](joshua) Chris Mattmann
[ ](joshua) Tom Barber
[ ](joshua) Henri Yandell
--------------------
MADlib
Big Data Machine Learning in SQL for Data Scientists.
MADlib has been incubating since 2015-09-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Continue to produce regular Apache (incubating) releases.
2. Expand the community, increase dev list activity and add new
contributors.
3. Execute and manage the project according to governance model required
by the "Apache Way”.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Held three community calls in Q1 2016. Each call featured a different
member of the Apache MADlib community presenting on a topic of interest
to them:
* Jan 15th - Bayesian Analysis of Binomial Response Models on MPP
Databases (Gautam Muralidhar)
* Feb 16th - An Overview of GWR Analysis of Spatial Data (Chenliang
Wang)
* Mar 16th - MADlib on PostgreSQL and PGXN (AJ Welch)
2. One new committer has been added to the project (Xiaocheng Tang)
3. Presentation of Apache MADlib at FOSDEM’16 in Brussels (Frank
McQuillan)
4. Material technical conversations on dev mailing lists and in the
appropriate JIRAs (e.g., 111 emails on dev@ mailing list in Feb)
5. Several Google Summer of Code (GSoC) candidates have expressed interest
in working on MADlib projects via dev@ mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. 1st ASF release MADlib v1.9alpha on 3/11/16 which was intended to clear
all potential IP issues in the code base and make it legally ready to
be adopted by the community.
2. 2nd ASF release MADlib v1.9 is currently in IPMC voting as of this
writing on 4/6/16. The goal of this 2nd release is general
availability of MADlib v1.9 for community use.
3. Some features in the latest release: path functions, support vector
machines, advanced matrix operations, covariance matrix, proportion of
variance for PCA, support for Apache HAWQ (incubating) 2.0.
4. 15 JIRAs created and 27 resolved in last 30 days.
Date of last release:
Apache MADlib (incubating) v1.9alpha on 3/11/16.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Xiaocheng Tang on 1/14/16.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](madlib) Konstantin Boudnik
[X](madlib) Ted Dunning
[X](madlib) Roman Shaposhnik
--------------------
Metron
Metron integrates a variety of open source big data technologies in order to
offer a centralized tool for security monitoring and analysis. Metron
provides capabilities for log aggregation, full packet capture indexing,
storage, advanced behavioral analytics and data enrichment, while applying
the most current threat-intelligence information to security telemetry
within a single platform.
Metron has been incubating since 2015-12-06.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards
Graduation.
- Building a diverse community of developers for Metron
- Getting security practitioners to provide feedback on requirements
- Make an Apache release
Any issues that the Incubator PMC or ASF Board might wish/need to
be aware of
- We are currently trying to produce the first Apache release of Metron
* How has the community developed since the last report
- We added one additional committer, David Lyle
- We accepted 2 separate contributions from non-committers interested
in Metron
- We saw an uptick in interest from the community on the dev boards which
corresponds to people trying the product prior to an official release,
which is a good sign.
* How has the project developed since the last report
- We closed 20 more Jiras and are in the latest stages of releasing an
Apache release.
- We added deployment automation for EC2 so trying out Metron in a
multi-node environment is even easier
- We integrated the CI environment that infra set up for us at our request
so that unit tests and apache rat license checks are run on every pull
request submitted
- We added support for indexing enriched sensor capture data into Apache
Solr indexing as well as Elasticsearch
Date of last release:
--
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
David Lyle on 22 March 2016
Signed-off-by:
[X](metron) Billie Rinaldi
[ ](metron) Chris Mattmann
[X](metron) Owen O'Malley
[ ](metron) P. Taylor Goetz
[ ](metron) Vinod Kumar Vavilapalli
--------------------
Milagro
Distributed Cryptography;
M-Pin and other pairing protocols for Identity and Trust
Milagro has been incubating since 2015-12-21.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Import the software: The source code is already prepared and placed in
repositories on GitHub – soon to be imported to Apache repositories.
This includes a full Milagro MFA implementation.
2. Awareness among developers: Milagro announcement – during ApacheCon
North America – May 2016
3. General Awareness
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
n/a
How has the community developed since the last report?
No substantial developments to report. The project is targeting community
development following Apachecon presentations.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Project members are preparing to present the project at ApacheCon with a
view to connecting with the wider Apache community and finding synergies
with other projects.
Date of last release:
n/a
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February, as reported.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](milagro) Sterling Hughes
[ ](milagro) Jan Willem Janssen
[x](milagro) Nick Kew
--------------------
Mnemonic
Mnemonic is a Java based non-volatile memory library for in-place structured
data processing and computing.
Mnemonic has been incubating since 2016-03-03.
Mnemonic code was moved into ASF on 3/24
Various metrics for March are as follows:
+--------------------------------------------+
| Metric | counts |
+--------------------------------------------+
| Non Merge Commits | 82 |
| Contributors | 10 |
| Jira New Issues | 13 |
| Resolved Issues | 4 |
| Pull Requests merged | 8 |
| Pull Requests proposed | 8 |
+--------------------------------------------+
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Apache releases: we are preparing 0.1.0 release
2. Expand and build strong community, keep active dev list discussions,
adding new contributors
3. Develop new features
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Everything is on track, nothing urgent at this time.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The project is in early stage in setting up the infra. In addition to
contributors listed in Mnemonic proposal, we had one new contributor
joined us. We are actively discuss with Arrow community in dev list for
the idea on integration. Apache Arrow community is very interested in
Mnemonic integration for extending Arrow into persistent memory and
storage.
How has the project developed since the last report?
We ported source code in Apache on 3/24 after SGA was filed on 3/23. We
are doing several refactorings and defining coding guidelines to fit
Apache project standard.
We are working on enabling Apache Arrow to use Mnemonic as underlying
pooling mechanism.
We are designing the native computing infrastructure, built native
computing interface code.
Bug tracking JIRA setup was done, 13 issues were filed. 4 issues were
solved.
Mailing list discussions are happening actively related to infrastructure,
code standard, features for the project.
Date of last release:
No release yet, working on 0.1.0 release
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No election, since the project is just starting. As part of incubation
process, initial committers and contributors were proposed and added.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mnemonic) Patrick Hunt
[ ](mnemonic) Andrew Purtell
[ ](mnemonic) James Taylor
[ ](mnemonic) Henry Saputra
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
--------------------
Mynewt
Mynewt is a real-time operating system for constrained embedded systems like
wearables, lightbulbs, locks and doorbells. It works on a variety of 32-bit
MCUs (microcontrollers), including ARM Cortex-M and MIPS architectures.
Mynewt has been incubating since 2015-10-20.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Make further releases capable of producing a downloadable RTOS image
with support for multiple peripherals and network connectivity. Do
subsequent releases to indicate thorough understanding, repeatability,
and maturity of process.
2. Continue to develop and execute policies that enable project
contributors to achieve self-governance
3. Expand community - attract new project contributors and users, grow
committer base
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Healthy, active mailing lists with increasing numbers of subscribers
2. Continual outside interest by 3rd parties. Outreach via conferences,
exhibits, one on one meetings, beta testers, GSoC participation.
3. Vigorous discussions and implementation decisions via proposals and
voting on @dev mailing list.
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Releases: Two releases so far - first on 22nd Feb, next on 18th March
- Identified and fixed license issues, regular process established to
check for license issues esp. with third party software
- Tagging process and release candidate naming process tested and used
- Voting process and timelines established and used
2. Documentation support: Several committers added documentation either
through direct git pushes or pull requests on github mirror.
3. Effort towards self governance:
- Two releases completed successfully.
- Two committer candidates going through voting for committer status
after meeting threshold of patch submissions.
Date of last release:
2016-03-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
At the start
Signed-off-by:
[ ](mynewt) Sterling Hughes
[X](mynewt) Jim Jagielski
[X](mynewt) Justin Mclean
[ ](mynewt) Greg Stein
[ ](mynewt) P. Taylor Goetz
--------------------
ODF Toolkit
Java modules that allow programmatic creation, scanning and manipulation of
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC 26300 == ODF) documents
ODF Toolkit has been incubating since 2011-08-01.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Attract more developers
2. Have frequent releases
3. Decide on possible ways to graduate
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Not many developers are active currently.
How has the community developed since the last report?
Several patches have been added to JIRA by community members. Issues have
been reported.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several patches have been applied, a new release is planned.
Date of last release:
2014-06-02
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
2012-10-29
Signed-off-by:
[ ](odftoolkit) Sam Ruby
[X](odftoolkit) Nick Burch
[ ](odftoolkit) Yegor Kozlov
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
Hopefully the new release will generate a little more interest. I'd
suggest we wait a few more months to see the effect of that, before
deciding on what to do with the podling (staying in the incubator for ever
isn't an option!)
--------------------
Quarks
Apache Quarks is a programming model and micro-kernel style runtime that can
be embedded in gateways and small footprint edge devices enabling local,
real-time, analytics on the continuous streams of data coming from
equipment, vehicles, systems, appliances, devices and sensors of all kinds
(for example, Raspberry Pis or smart phones). Working in conjunction with
centralized analytic systems, Apache Quarks provides efficient and timely
analytics across the whole IoT ecosystem: from the center to the edge.
Quarks has been incubating since 2016-02-29.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Create and expand a diverse community of contributors and committers
around Quarks project
2. Create the first Apache release of Quarks
3. Complete migration of website to host all content at Apache (javadoc is
still on Github).
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
Nothing jumps to mind.
How has the community developed since the last report?
The Quarks community is keeping dev-related conversations on the mailing
list. Because of this, it's allowed for the participation of independent
contributors in mailing list discussions. Although our list of independent
contributors is small, Quarks is still very new as an Apache project and
we aim to actively grow our list in the near future.
How has the project developed since the last report?
* The project has successfully migrated from Github-based development to
using the Apache git repo, Jira, and the mailing lists.
Date of last release:
Quarks is still new, so we haven't created an Apache release as of yet.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No changes from the initial committers.
Signed-off-by:
[ ](quarks) Daniel Debrunner
[ ](quarks) Luciano Resende
[X](quarks) Katherine Marsden
[X](quarks) Justin Mclean
--------------------
Ranger
The Ranger project is a framework to enable, monitor and manage
comprehensive data security across the Hadoop platform.
Ranger has been incubating since 2014-07-24.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Increase the community participants for Apache Ranger
2. Re-organize documentation for easier access to end-users, new users and
contributors.
3. Integration of Apache Ranger with other Apache Security Initiatives
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
None
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Added new contributors:
(Bolke de Bruin,Deepak Sharma,Colm O hEigeartaigh,Tushar
Dudhatra,mugdha.varadkar,pradeep.agrawal,mehul,ankita.sinha)
Total Contributor Count: 23
2. Mailing list activity since last report (Dec-01-2015 to Mar-31-2016):
@dev 1534
@user 153
@commit 345
3. Issues (JIRAs) created/resolved since last report (after Dec-01-2015
before Mar-31-2016):
Created: 153
Resolved: 140
How has the project developed since the last report?
1. Released two minor releases :
0.5.1 release on 01/26/2016
0.5.2 release on 02/29/2016
2. Members have been working on a next major release of 0.6.0
a. Working with new contributors to add HSM support for Apache Ranger
KMS.
b. Working to provide both Column-level-masking and Row-level-filtering
support for data security
c. Working to add Tag-Based authorization policies
Date of last release:
Feb-29-2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
1. Gautam Borad has been added as committer on June-29-2015
Signed-off-by:
[ ](ranger) Alan Gates
[ ](ranger) Daniel Gruno
[ ](ranger) Devaraj Das
[ ](ranger) Jakob Homan
[X](ranger) Owen O'Malley
--------------------
Rya
Rya (pronounced "ree-uh" /rēə/) is a cloud-based RDF triple store that
supports SPARQL queries. Rya is a scalable RDF data management system built
on top of Accumulo. Rya uses novel storage methods, indexing schemes, and
query processing techniques that scale to billions of triples across
multiple nodes. Rya provides fast and easy access to the data through
SPARQL, a conventional query mechanism for RDF data.
Rya has been incubating since 2015-09-18.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Become familiar with the release process and have a first release as
part of the Apache Foundation
2. Expand the "how to" document to explain the ways new contributors can
become involved in the project, so we increase the size of the
community.
3. Add new committers to the project.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be aware
of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
* We have a Rya "office hour" teleconference every other week. We had
some technical difficulties with screen sharing, but we had a working
solution for the last meeting. Users and developers can ask questions,
receive answers, discuss ideas for future developments. The minutes are
sent to the dev@ list.
* We have more PRs from non-committers which are integrated into the
repository. We expect some of these non-committers to continue to
submit PRs and become committers.
* There were several ideas from Rya for Google Summer of Code, and a few
students expressed interest; one of them submitted a proposal
How has the project developed since the last report?
* Created a quick-start VM for users to try out Rya.
* Created a website for the project.
* Resolved a handful of issues that users have encountered.
* Committed features: incremental update for precomputed join indices,
extensions to query planning to support more complex precomputed join
indices, free text search support for MongoDB, additional Geo indexing
for MongoDB, extensions of examples for both Accumulo and MongoDB backed
Rya
Date of last release:
Not applicable
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Not applicable
Signed-off-by:
[x](rya) Josh Elser
[x](rya) Edward J. Yoon
[x](rya) Sean Busbey
[x](rya) Venkatesh Seetharam
Shepherd/Mentor notes:
sb: project activity was a little slow, due to other time commitments for
the dev community, but folks had a great discussion around next steps
when it came time for a draft report.
--------------------
Sirona
Monitoring Solution.
Sirona has been incubating since 2013-10-15.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. increase the community
2. do more releases
3. make the community more active
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
No
How has the community developed since the last report?
No change but some more user feedbacks.
How has the project developed since the last report?
Several fixes have been done and enhancements in instrumentation side.
Date of last release:
2015-11-18
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
Signed-off-by:
[X](sirona) Olivier Lamy
[ ](sirona) Henri Gomez
[ ](sirona) Jean-Baptiste Onofre
[ ](sirona) Tammo van Lessen
[ ](sirona) Mark Struberg
[X](sirona) Romain Manni-Bucau
--------------------
Toree
Toree provides applications with a mechanism to interactively and remotely
access Apache Spark. It enables interactive workloads between applications
and a Spark cluster. As a Jupyter Notebook extension, it provides the user
with a preconfigured environment for interacting with Spark using Scala,
Python, R or SQL.
Toree has been incubating since 2015-12-02.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Resolve LGPL dependency: This is in progress, and hopefully we will
have the dependency license changed to a license that is compatible
with AL2.
2. Make a release: nearing completion
3. Grow a diverse community: We should put some emphasis on growing the
community and making it diverse (the rule is at least three independent
contributors)
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
TOREE-262 - Progress on removal of LGPL dependency
How has the community developed since the last report?
1. Active communication in mailing list and gitter with early adopters
2. Still working on transitioning users from Spark Kernel project into
Toree.
3. First external contribution made by user @dongjoon-hyun
4. Apache Toree was featured at SF Data Science meetup
https://github.com/asimjalis/apache-toree-quickstart
Date of last release:
None since incubation.
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
No new additions since incubation
Signed-off-by:
[ ](toree) Luciano Resende
[ ](toree) Reynold Xin
[X](toree) Hitesh Shah
[ ](toree) Julien Le Dem
--------------------
Wave
A wave is a hosted, live, concurrent data structure for rich communication.
It can be used like email, chat, or a document.
Wave has been incubating since 2010-12-04.
Three most important issues to address in the move towards graduation:
1. Growing community
2. Improving code base.
Any issues that the Incubator PMC (IPMC) or ASF Board wish/need to be
aware of?
How has the community developed since the last report?
- We made our first release.
- Elected new committer.
- Previously private fork (wiab.pro) opened the source code that includes
many improvements that can be integrated back into main project.
- Also, there's an active development in additional open source fork
(swellrt) that potentially allows us to integrate back important
features.
How has the project developed since the last report?
- Replaced the old ANT build system with a new Gradle one.
- Fixed a few bugs
- Made a few code improvements
Date of last release:
March 2016
When were the last committers or PMC members elected?
February 2016
Signed-off-by:
[ ](wave) Upayavira
Shepherd/Mentor notes: